Effectiveness of the strategies used to motivate employees and improve their performance and productivity in the public sector of the Maldives / Mariyam Shimna

ABSTRACT
Title: Effectiveness of Strategies Used to Motivate Employees and Improve Their Performance and
Productivity in the Public Sector of Maldives.
Objective: The main objective of the study to find out the effectiveness of the strategies used to motivate
employees and to conclude the best strategy.
Study Design: A descriptive study was conducted to identify the effectiveness of the strategies and What
is the best strategy to improve the performance and productivity of employees. To collect data, a selfadministered
questionnaire was given to the employees of ministries and conducted interviews with the
senior managers of the ministries.
Method: Data was collected from three ministries from public sector of Maldives, 40 employees from
each ministry were asked to fill the questionnaires while 03 senior managers from each ministry were
interviewed. Sample size is 129 staffs.
Results: Being democratic. recognition, and high pay are the most effective strategies. Still, training and
performance appraisal was also considered effective by majority of the employee sample while being
autocratic is the least effective strategy. Finally, it was concluded that training is the best strategy after
consideration of views of both employees and employers.
Recommendation: Research could be improved by making some questions of questionnaire more direct
and getting opinion of employers about the effectiveness individual strategies.
Keywords: Performance appraisal, Training, Fringe benefits, Bonus, Democratic, Autocratic, DEmocratic,
Autocratic and Delegation.