Abstract:
This study aims to indicate that relationship between the motivational perception of employee and the motivational characteristics that are established in job design. The researchers who study on importance of job characteristics have searched possible influence of job characteristics in order to study this concept as much concrete.
A job design includes some components like motivational, mechanical, biological and perceptual/motor. (Campion and Thayer, 1987) I, here, researched some variable about motivational components. These are “Skill Variety”, “Task Identity”, “Task Significance”, “Autonomy” and “Feedback”, that is factors of job characteristics.
The data in these study is acquired from seventy security managers on site of the private security company, that performs for a facility management company that is the 4th employment all over the world, in Turkey. Employees are seperate into employee on site and employee on head office. Employees on site perform operational issues, employees on head office also perform supportive issues like sales, marketing, accounting, personnel affairs, quality and assuarance, human resources, training, inspection etc.
Motivational Potential Score was figured out to determine employee motivation score in the end of the survey. Job descriptions and job specifications are based for job characteristics that is determined for security managers on site. Intended motivational score of company and perceived motivational score by security manager on site were tried to observe.
In the litterateur, there are many studies that research about relationship between job characteristics and employee motivation. On the other hand, in the previous research, there are not many studies differently about influences of job characteristics and employee motivation on other sectors.
This study has directed to appear influence of job characteristics on employee motivation in private security services sector. The study is expected that will be beneficial to fill in the blank on this research area and that will present a different aspect for future studies.
