Influence of the characteristics of the workplace on the employee's motivation: empirical analysis in BP.

Abstract

At present, more and more companies are worried about encouraging the motivation of their workers, as they know that this will lead to an increase in the performance for the company. Therefore, motivation is an essential attitude for employees' organizations because it allows them to improve work performance, better perform job functions and tasks, all of which organizations will be more likely to get better results and wo rkers will experience . An increase in their quality of working life. The main objective of this work is to verify how the characteristics of the jobs affect the motivation of the employees. To do this, we first carried out a theoretical study and later car ried out an empirical study on the company BP Oil España S.A.U. The empirical study consisted in the execution of 30 surveys, answered by employees of 3 departments (HR, HSSE and TECNICO) of the organization. Finally, we performed the statistical analyzes using the SPSS program to verify if there are significant effects between the variables of the job and the motivation of the employees.