The impact of leadership on staff motivation
Introduction
The workforce or labour force is a group within the organisation that is undeniably one of the most important factions that contributes to its success. A business cannot exist without financial capital, but it also can never exist without human capital (Davis, C. 2003). It is the employees who work for the company, performs the necessary tasks to make the company function, and are responsible for the profit and growth of the company (Ellis, 2000). With such great roles and responsibilities tasked to the staff/employees, they are being kept by the company through strategic motivation approach along with efficient leadership skills. Making employees give their best on their job and tasks is perhaps one of the most challenging endeavours that the company should perform. Employees can do many things during work that may disrupt or support the attempts of the company to earn money. Company should always give the effort to motivate their employees. Motivating employees means empowering them to lead the company into the path of competitiveness (Bridges, 2001). Motivation or empowerment of employees through efficient leadership is important to give the employees enough reason to stay in the company and work their best in the compant (Ellis, and Lindsay Lowell 1999).
Accordingly, leadership is noted to be one of the well-documented topics in different nations. As Bass (1990), stated that there are various authors that provides definition of leaderships. This is because of many scholars who have dedicated their research in investigating the context of leadership. The definition of leadership that would be widely accepted by the majority of theorists and researchers might say that leadership is a process of social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task." The major points of this definition are that leadership is a group activity, is based on social influence, and revolves around a common task. Although this specification seems relatively simple, the reality of leadership is very complex. Intrapersonal factors (i.e., thoughts and emotions) interact with interpersonal processes (i.e., attraction, communication, influence) to have effects on a dynamic external environment. Each of these aspects brings complexity to the leadership process. It is the purpose of this book to try to make that complexity a bit more manageable, thus increasing our ability to understand what effective leadership is.
RESEARCH PURPOSE
The aim of this study is to determine the impact of leadership on motivating staff in order to meet their project goal and quality improving. Specifically, the aims are:
· To identify how leadership impact staff motivation.
· To identify the factors which enable leaders to improve their motivation
· To identify the internal and external environment influence for leaders to improve staff motivation.
5.1 Brief description
This part of the paper discusses the methods that will be used for this research. This detailed the steps the researcher should consider in order to accomplish the study. The said steps then include the collection procedure of the data that is required in the delivery and completion of the research. It also presents the manner in which these data will be utilised and integrated in the study and at the same time, detail how the research proceed to answer the aims and objectives in order to reach to the conclusion.
In this manner, this part of the paper justifies the means in which the study will be performed. It also emphasises its credibility by making mention of widely accepted scientific methodologies. Through the methods mentioned in this paper, a plausible conclusion will be obtained.
Looking back to the aims and objectives of the study, the study intends to determine the impact of leadership to staff motivation. In order to identify the opinions of such staff, the study’s methodology was focused on collecting both primary and secondary data through related literature research and the survey and interview materials.
As the research intends to discover the general consensus of staff in the company with regards to motivation and efficiency of the leadr, the immediate research methodology in mind is the descriptive research design. The research are taken from various data sources that is integral in identifying issues with regards to leadership, employee motivation and the status of their performance in the company.
Reference
Bass, B.M. (1990) Bass and Stogdill's Handbook of Leadership: New York: Free Pres
Beam, B.T. & McFadden, J. (2000) Employee Benefits, Dearborn Trade Publishing.
Bridges, L. (2001) ‘Keep Talent on your Turf’ eWeek. Vol. 18, No. 18. pp. 12-20.
Butkus, R. & Green, T. (1999). Motivation, Beliefs and Organisational Transformation. Connecticut: Quorum Books.
Marshall, C. & Rossman, G.B. (1999). Designing Qualitative Research. 3rd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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