Factors Influencing Employees’ Performance at Workplace. An Integrated Perspective
Keywords:
performance, employees, factors, job satisfaction, human resources management.Abstract
The employee satisfaction and retention are the
key factors for the attainment of organization
goals and objectives. No one can measure the
level of satisfaction an individual get why he/she
performs his or her work. But there are factors
which directly or indirectly affect the satisfaction
and performance level of employees at
workplace. Organizations that produce work
environment that attract, motivate and retain
hard-working individuals will be more
successfully positioned to succeed in an
unpredictable business environment that demands
cost-efficiency and quality. Employee
performance is a behavior that can be valued in
terms of the scope to which it contributes to
organizational effectiveness. Taking into account
the importance and sensitivity of the issue of
employees’ performance to any organization, this
paper tries to review the various available
literature and research work on employee
performance and the factors influencing
employees’ performance at workplace. The study
is also an attempt to review the strategies adopted
by different organizations to improve the performance level of employees which are based on a well districted human resources management.
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