Improving the System of Staff Motivation in the Company «Human Resources»
Student: Poddubnaya Alena
Supervisor: Oksana Isaeva
Faculty: Faculty of Management (Nizhny Novgorod)
Educational Programme: Master
Year of Graduation: 2014
<p>This master thesis covers one of the most actual problem in management - the problem of staff motivation. This problem was studied on the example of the company «Human Resources» which deals with the staff recruitment and trainings for personnel.</p><p>The objective of this research is improvement of employee motivation in the company «Human Resources».</p><p>In accordance with the purpose of the study the following tasks were determined:</p><p>1. To conduct theoretical analysis of the literature on the topic of research.</p><p>2. To develop diagnostic system to identify features of the system of staff motivation in the company «Human Resources».</p><p>3. To identify the features of the system of staff motivation in the company «Human Resources».</p><p>4. To formulate recommendations to improve the motivation of the personnel in the company «Human Resources».</p><p>Research methods:</p><p>• Theoretical tasks of the research solved by the analysis and synthesis of the scientific literature.</p><p>• Research of the features of staff motivation system in the company «Human Resources» performed using diagnostic system developed by the authors and analysis of documentation.</p><p>• The mathematical treatment of the results of research carried out by the methods of descriptive statistics using specialized software for information processing «SPSS Statistics (Version 17)».</p><p>The research was conducted in three phases:</p><p>I. Researching of employee motivation system in the company «Human Resources» by analyzing the documentation. The documents used for the analysis:</p><p>1. Regulation «About the material incentives for the staff»;</p><p>2. Regulation « About the non-material motivation of the staff».</p><p>II. Questioning of employees who are working in the company «Human Resources», in order to analyze the features of perceptual by employees their motives of professional activity.</p><p>III. Interview with employees who resigned from the company «Human Resources». Purpose of the interview is researching of perception by dismissed employees features of the system of motivation in the company «Human Resources».</p><p>The research of the features of the motivation system in «Human Resources» showed following results:</p><p>1. Significance of the motives of professional activity for employees, who are working in the company «Human Resources» is following:</p><p>1st place. Wages,</p><p>2nd place. Possibility of professional self-realization,</p><p>3rd place. Professional development in the company,</p><p>4th place. Relationships with colleagues,</p><p>5th place. Attitude of the leadership,</p><p>6th place. Significance of the work,</p><p>7th place. Working conditions,</p><p>8th place. Contents of the work,</p><p>9th place. Social package.</p><p>2. Employees «Human Resources» are most satisfied:</p><p>• Relationships with colleagues,</p><p>• Working conditions,</p><p>• Attitude of the leadership.</p><p>Employees are least satisfied:</p><p>• Social package,</p><p>• Wages,</p><p>• Possibility of professional self-realization.</p><p>3. Personnel motivation system in the company «Human Resources» has the following main positive points by the opinion of dismissed employees:</p><p>• The team (72.73% indicated this point)</p><p>• Indispensable experience (54.55% said it)</p><p>4. Among the reasons for the dismissal respondents highlighted the following:</p><p>• Dissatisfaction with wages (68.18% indicated this reason)</p><p>• Lack of development prospects (40.91% said it)</p><p>5. The company has two problem areas in the system of motivation of professional activity:</p><p>1. Wages,</p><p>2. Possibility of professional self-realization.</p><p>Authors of this research suggested recommendations to improve the system of motivation of employees in the company «Human Resources» based on the results of a study. Moreover, economic efficiency of these proposals was calculated.</p><p> Economic calculations have shown that the proposed measures to improve staff motivation system are less expensive for the company than its loss from a high turnover of staff in the company.</p>
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