Ioana MARIN1, Radu MARIN2
Abstract. The knowledge economy is characterized by globalization and the use of a workforce with a high level of knowledge and qualifications, necessary to be able to cope with the increasingly rapid technological changes and to be able to innovate permanently. This type of economy requires organizations to become more and more performant. Also, human capital, recognized as the most valuable resource of organizations, must be motivated to provide organizations with the knowledge and skills they have. It is important for the organization’s management to determine the motivational factors for the organization’s employees, a mission that can prove to be difficult, given that they differ from one employee to another and have a permanent evolution over time. The paper aims to demonstrate, based on a literature review and a bibliometric analysis,the factthatthere is a strong direct relationship between employee motivation and performance. Bibliometric analysis was made using articles indexed in Scopus, with employee motivation as keyword. The existence of strong links between employee motivation and employee performance, organizational performance, performance, task performance was revealed. It is also worth mentioning that strong links have been identified between the analysed concept (employee motivation) and some job-related attitudes (job satisfaction, employee engagement, organizational commitment), that are important for the performance of organizations.
Keywords: motivation, employee motivation, performance, job performance, knowledge economy
1 National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest/Romania ioanamun@gmail.com
2 National University of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest/Romania radu.marin@digitalaccounting.ro (corresponding author)
PUBLISHED in Journal of Knowledge Dynamics, Volume 1, No2