A Correlational Study of Organizational Health and Job Motivation among Private SectorEmployees

Abstract

Organizational health overall encompasses the complete well-being and productiveness of anorganization. It includes several facets such as structure, culture, leadership, strategy, andprocesses that play a major role in an organization's successful stand in terms of performanceefficiency. A healthy organization endures in its environment and grows in survival and copingcapacity over time. Job motivation is a psychological term which explains the inner andsurrounding forces that encourage people to start, continue, and invest efforts in finishing specificwork-related chores. It comprises the elements that influence an individual's behavior and extent of work effort including the rewards, desires, needs, and wants. It’s essential for managers, employers, and organizations to recognize work motivation if they want to enhance the overall performance, productivity, and engagement of employees. The standardized questionnaires havebeen utilized to gather primary data from a sample of 110 private sector employees. Data wasacquired using the Organizational Health Scale developed by Miles in 1965 and the JobMotivation Scale developed by Akhtar and Manju in 1992. The statistical analysis involves theuse of Pearson’s correlation as the applied method for data analysis. The outcomes depicted there is a significant positive relationship between Organizational Healthand Job Motivation among private sector employees. All of the organizational healthdimensions—communication adequacy, goal focus, resource utilization, optimal powerequalization, morale, cohesiveness, autonomy, problem-solving adequacy, innovativeness,andadaptation—have a strong positive correlation with the aspects of job motivation—intrinsic andextrinsic motivation—among private sector workers.