The requirements to increase the competitiveness of firms on international markets make it necessary to consider personnel as strategic resources of any business. Therefore, today, it is not enough to establish working conditions and wages for the employees. The modern employer, using the mechanisms of psychology, sociology, personnel management, not only manages the actions of the employee during working hours, organizes the work and regulates its intensity, but also seeks to control the mood, emotions, the general feel in the team and motivation of employees for production and business purposes.
The fundamental factor in the success of any business are the people working there. First of all, such competent employees must be found, and this is not so simple. After such a person is found, problems associated with the lack of a person's motivation to work start appearing. This is very dangerous, because the lack of motivation creates an unwillingness to work, and, subsequently, a desire to change jobs altogether.
What is motivation? In human behavior there are 2 functionally interrelated aspects: incentive and regulatory. The wish provides activation and orientation of behavior, and regulation is responsible for how it develops from the beginning to the end in a specific situation.
Labor productivity is the term that measures the activities of people, the quantity of products produced per unit of working time.
Under the conditions of market relations, the task of increasing labor productivity as a source of real economic progress becomes vital for the further development of the economy.
As the world experience of recent decades shows, the countries with the highest labor productivity, and not with the largest resources become the economic leaders.
Special institutions function in such economies, developing productivity management technologies. Considerable attention is also paid to labor productivity at the level of organizations of all spheres of activity.
The level and dynamics of labor productivity is influenced by many factors. They can be divided into two groups:
- External, not managed by the organization (actions of the government, legislation)
- Internal, managed by the organization (strategic decision, organizational issues, labor relations)
What, nevertheless, makes an employee work? This key issue worries every manager, leader and business owner. Perhaps, today there is still no definite answer to it: there are a huge number of approaches, views and theories that have been put forward by various specialists. Thus, we can conclude that the programs of motivation and incentives are not yet sufficiently developed and there is still work to do in order to find out how to increase productivity via staff motivation.
