The Role of Benefits in Employee Motivation and Retention
Motivation is considered a key driver of performance because it is associated to numerous benefits at work (Pinder 2008). Motivated employees are more promised in their work (Rich 2006), their performance is of higher class (Cerasoli et al. 2014) and they profit more from work-related training (Massenberg et al. 2015). The topic of employee motivation and retention is a complex issue, which is given by individuality of each person and reflects not only the specific needs of each person, but sometimes even their very different rating in terms of importance. There are the two things playing an important role in this area: how much employees understand the resulting systems of their activity and how much they objectively understand the strategy and policy of their company, business environment and possibly also the international context in which the company is active (Sterbova, 2013). Employee motivation is the goal-oriented behavior of each individual. I...