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Department of Business Administration, 53p. The HF 5549.5 .M63W33 2007 ; Employees are the most important resource for an organization. This therefore implies that for operations (activities) to go on smoothly in an organization, employees must invest fully their skills and abilities in discharging their duties. It is employees who create strategies and innovations that enable organizations to produce highly valued products and services. First and foremost, the problem of motivating employees (humans) must be understood not in simple, mechanistic terms, but rather in terms of a more complex and somewhat idiosyncratic process of trying to facilitate desired motivational patterns. In other words there is no magic motivational buttons that can be pushed to "make" people want to learn, work hard and act in a responsible manner the attempt to motivate someone should not be viewed as a power struggle or an opportunity to assert one's authority. Facilitation not control should be the guiding idea in attempts to motivate humans. Even when in a position of power or authority, one's efforts to motivate people will generally be more successful if they are viewed as collaborations between people who may not share the same feelings, expectations and agenda of personal goals. This study sought to access the motivational factors lack of which had led to low morale among the private Valuers. It targeted Valuers working within the private sector in Nairobi city- Kenya. The results from study will be of help to private owned valuation firms in identification of causes of low morale among their employees and hence find ways of improving service provision and profitability. It will also assist the policy makers to come up with a feasible option and policies on employee motivation and morale enhancement. The study will also act as a basis for further research on factors affecting employee motivation among private owned firms in Kenya. Data collection was done through the use of questionnaires. The questionnaire had both open and ... |