Importance of Motivational Factors among Future Business Persons: Further Evidence from Ghana

Authors

  • Peter Kwame Kuutol
  • Ebenezer Agyemang Badu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18533/ijbsr.v3i7.247

Keywords:

Motivation factors, Incentives Job performance, Employee motivation

Abstract

Businesses design motivation systems to persuade employees to perform in the most effective way but also to attract potential candidates. The key to create the efficient motivation system is an answer to the question what actually motivate employees. The rationale of this paper is to find which of the motivation factors are seen as the most important by students considered as future business persons either by gender or job possession as set out in the questionnaire. The study was based on the questionnaire distributed to the sample of 462 respondents from Presbyterian University college of Ghana. Respondents were asked to rank thirteen motivation factors in the order of their importance. The findings showed that Good wages and job security were the most important factors for all students as well as good working conditions.

 

The research recommended the creation of motivation systems for freshly graduated potential employees and freshly graduated employees to me their expectations as well as for planning recruitment strategies focused on future job seekers.

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Vol. 3 No. 7 (2013): July

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