TY  - JOUR
T1  - Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation: An Empirical Tale of Employees Look in a Job
AU - Allam, Zafrul 
JO  - Research Journal of Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 117
EP  - 124
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-932x
DO  - rjasci.2017.117.124
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjasci.2017.117.124
KW  - Motivation
KW  -intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
KW  -gender
KW  -nationality
KW  -social status
KW  -Saudi Arabia
AB  - The present research aimed to examine the level of degree of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation among
employees. The sample comprises of 102 employees selected randomly from various organizations in the Riyadh
and Al-Kharj Region of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and employees were given intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
scale to provide their responses. Descriptive statistics, rank order and graphical presentation were used to
explain the findings. The results revealed that adequate salary has given first priority by females, married and
academic employees, respectively working in the Kingdom, respect and recognition has given first priority by
males, unmarried, non-academic, national and international employees, respectively, least priority regarded to
restricted hours of work by females, males, international and academic groups of employees and interestingly
few factors were observed commonly among various groups of the employees. Limitation of the investigation
and recommendations are discoursed.
ER  -