Organizational Culture and Employee Motivation: An Application on Albanian SME's

Abstract

Employee’s motivation is considered an important psychological factor for an organization because it helps the human factor operation moving toward the desired goals in a pleasant way that makes it happier in fulfilling better their required tasks. The organizational culture is considered to be the ground that develops the set of values which affect the motivation of the employees or, it creates the proper environment for the opposite of the motivation i.e. the demonization of the convenient behavior by neglecting the required tasks and by skipping their roles. The purpose of this study is to identify the influence that culture has on the motivation of its own employees on three different medium sized Albanian companies. The aim of this project is to study and identify the environmental culture of these companies and to find out how this culture affects their employees motivation, in order to discover if their success somehow is owing to their attention to the employees motivation, if there might be place for better change or improvement and how the relation between culture and motivation can be described. Studying these companies helps to understand how the organization culture is conceived and the importance is given to the human factor. A questionnaire based research was made to identify the organizational cultural types and their impact on employee’s motivation characters.