Motivational Challenges on Job Performance

Authors: Suguna Sinniah, Zafir Mohd Makhbul
Publisher: UKM Press
ISBN: 9789672514107
Weight: 0.25kg
Pages: 151
Year: 2021
Price: RM30

In recent years, organizations have experienced intensive competition at both domestic and international levels in retaining talented employees. It has become a daunting, task to retain employees in organizations, especially in Private Higher Educational Institutions (PHEIS). For many decades, a debate has been raging on the lecturers' roles, responsibilities, motivation, and job performance. Despite the vast literature on lecturers' roles and responsibilities, lecturers' intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and performance are insufficiently explored; thus, more studies need to be done regarding this context to uplift the overall motivating factor that will enhance their performance level, which does not only contribute to their work-life balance but also the institution and the country. With this agenda, this book is the first to conduct broad empirical research on lecturers' motivation, self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and performance within Malaysia. The contents showed that financial rewards, code of conduct, and autonomy are positively related to lecturers' performance, while promotion, performance appraisals, and classroom environment are not. Furthermore, the substances also found that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between financial rewards, classroom environment, and job autonomy towards lecturers' performance. In view of the moderating effect, lecturers' self-efficacy influences the relationship between lecturers' job satisfaction and performance. This book will provide new directions for future study on lecturers' job performance in other educational institutions in Malaysia.

SUGUNA SINNIAH, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the UKM-Graduate School of Business (UKM-GSB). Her research interest is in human resource management and organizational behavior.

ZAFIR KHAN MOHAMED MAKHBUL, Ph.D., is a Professor and the Dean of the UKM-Graduate School of Business (UKM-GSB). His research interest is in human resource management and organizational management.