... motivators."" (de Silva, 1998:10). The direct linkage between performance and rewards also tends to impoverish both management and employees in the kinds of rewards that are valued. Within the definition of rewards there are a large number of rewards that indicates to an employee that his contribution is valued. However, once a formal system is set up to publicise a direct ... is required to ensure that employees maximise their individual performance or in-role activity. It is evident from the above that employees need to be rewarded for their performance in terms of their own particular...

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... . In this essay I will be using the term 'productivity' as the means to describe the effect on high job performance, as the two terms are used interchangeably through many studies based on this area of organizational psychology. When looking at the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance or whether there is a relationship at all; it is still an area in ... satisfaction can be defined as "an affective reaction to one's job, resulting from the incumbent's comparison of actual outcomes with those that are desired" (Cranny, Smith and Stone, 1992). This definition expla...

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