Motivation for Making Job Interesting

Md. Hasebur Rahman; Dr. Md. Mushfiqur Rahman

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Md. Hasebur Rahman
Dr. Md. Mushfiqur Rahman

Keywords:

motivation, employee, commercial bank, job interesting, motivational factors

Abstract

Employees are regarded as a most valuable resource and the main driver for organizational success. In order to be successful, an organization needs to consistently motivate employees so that they can act toward the goals of the organization and have a strong desire to remain in the organization. This study attempted to draw influences of different motivational factors such as salary adequacy, future security, social dignity/status, career ambition, training and development, comfortable physical environment, mutual cooperation among employees and management relation on making job interesting of organizational participant in commercial banks in Bangladesh. Supportive hypotheses have been drawn from a review of literature and study reveals for making job interesting for employees; future security, career ambition, training/development, comfortable physical environment and management relation have positive significant influence. On the other hand; salary adequacy, social dignity/status and mutual cooperation among employees have insignificant influence on making job interesting.

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Motivation for Making Job Interesting. (2014). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 14(1), 23-34. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/

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Author Biographies

Md. Hasebur Rahman

Professor Dr. Md. Hasebur Rahman, Department of Business Administration, Pabna University of Science and Technology, Pabna-6600, Bangladesh. Research interests: organizational behavior special focus on motivation, job satisfaction, job stress, employee-centered supervision & productivity, customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, and areas of general management. Mail. [email protected] Mob. +8801718293000

Dr. Md. Mushfiqur Rahman

Dr. Md. Mushfiqur Rahman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Pabna University of Science and Technology in Bangladesh. His research interests span small-scale industry extension services, agricultural economics, and workplace motivation. He has authored three scholarly papers, including studies on the appropriateness of extension services for small-scale industries, the efficiency of rice farms during the Boro period in Bangladesh, and factors that make jobs interesting. Dr. Rahman's work contributes to the understanding of business administration and economic development in the context of Bangladesh.

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