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Motivation and learning in manufacturing industries

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posted on 2016-11-03, 11:07 authored by Shafizal Mat, Keith Case, Shahrol Mohamaddan, Yee GohYee Goh
Problems of motivation and job satisfaction have continued to plague developing countries like Malaysia. The driving factors to motivate employees have frequently been studied, but no correlation between motivation and job satisfaction has been found. The study described here focuses on work motivation, satisfaction and performance together with their relationships with learning behaviours. The research consisted of an industrial study of 356 employees from manufacturing industries in Malaysia. Unskilled employees preferred group working on complex tasks whereas skilled employees preferred to work individually, in both cases increasing motivation, satisfaction and performance. Task complexity was found to be an important factor in job design and learning. Learning in groups was a significant factor in workplace learning for both unskilled and skilled employees. Knowledge of the relationships between motivation and learning is expected to be useful for employers and policy makers in organisations especially in manufacturing industries in Malaysia.

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School

  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Fourteenth International Conference on Manufacturing Research Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXX, Volume 3 of Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

Pages

225 - 230 (6)

Citation

MAT, S. ...et al., 2016. Motivation and learning in manufacturing industries. IN: Goh, Y.M. and Case, K. (eds). Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXX, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Manufacturing Research (ICMR 2016), Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK, September 2016, pp. 225-230.

Publisher

IOS Press

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-08-29

Publication date

2016

Notes

The final publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-225

ISBN

9781614996675

ISSN

2352-751X

eISSN

2352-7528

Language

  • en

Location

Loughborough, UK

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