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Effects of organization culture on employee motivation in Penine Foods

EFFECTS OF ORGANISATION CULTURE ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN

PENINE FOODS

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Table of contents

Title page ……………………………………………………………….. 1

Table of content ………………………………………………………… 2

Summary ………………………………………………………………... 3

Introduction ……………………………………………………………... 4

Purpose of the research ………………………………………………….. 7

Objectives of the research ……………………………………………….. 7

Literature review ………………………………………………………... 7

Methodology …………………………………………………………….. 12

a. Research design …………………………………………………. 12

b. Sample …………………………………………………………... 12

c. Research tools ………………………………………………….... 13

d. Administration of research tool ………………..………………….13

e. Data analysis ……………………………………………………... 14

f. Limitation and assumptions ………………………………………. 15

References ………………………………………………………………… 16

Methodology

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a) Research design

The research will employ a survey kind of research design where data will be collected

from the employees. This kind of research design will best suited to collect the data since

it will give the researcher a chance to collect primary data from the organisation. In his

regard the researcher will be able to interact with the staff in the organisation which will

make it possible to understand the dynamic factors of the research by having a first hand

experience. One advantage with the survey kind of research design is that the researchers

will have a chance of experiencing the culture of the organisation in practice rather that

getting it from the secondary sources.

b) Sampling and sample size

The sample frame that will be used for the research will be the members of the staff of

Penine foods. In the regard the research will collect data from both the worker and the

managers of Penine Foods and not from external staffs. This is because the research is

supposed to evaluate the effects of culture in those particular organisations. This will help

to make the data collected more reliable and accurate. In the research a sample of 30

subjects will be selected from the sample frame. This sample will include 15 junior staff

and 15 managerial staffs. This ratio will be kept in the selection order to ensure that there

is fair presentation of the population the organization. In order to reduce biasness based

on gender, the sample size will be composed of males and female on fifty-fifty bases

which means there will be 15 males and 15 females. This will help to reduce biasness in

the study.

The research wills issue a random sampling selection technique in selecting samples size.

In this regard, the sample frame will be dividing into two cohorts, the senior or

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managerial staff and the junior staff. Then a sample of 15 subjects will be randomly

selected from each of the cohorts. Random selection is the best selection method to use

here in order to reduce biasness in the study and to ensure the study collect the most

accurate and relevant data that reflects the population.

c) Research tools

The research will employ different research tools in order to collect the most accurate and

relevant data. In this regard the research will employ researcher administer question and

at the same time will employ observation list. These two tools are very important in the

research as they will help the research to get the view of both the manager and the

workers and at the same time watch the organisation culture in practice. The question

will be researched administered in order to help the researcher to get some important

aspects of data collection including facial expressions which help to capture the emotions

of the subject about the topic of researcher. An observation list will help the research to

confirms some of the organisation culture that will have been identified by the

management and the workers to see how they are being practiced in the organisation and

to understand there effectives.

d) Administration of research tools

In administering the research tools, the process will be made as flexible as possible in

order to make it the proceeds more efficient. Though there will be emphases of the

researcher administering the questionnaire, there will be space for exemption as regard

making appointment with the top level management of the organisation who may find it

difficult to adjust their busy schedules. As such there will be an upon of mailing the

question to the top level managers and having fill and get it later. This will make sure the

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rearcher collects the date in the stipulation time. For other questionnaires, they will be

administered by the researcher.

For the observation list, the research will observe the workers in practice in order to

confirm the application of various organisation cultures that will have been given by the

workers and the management.

Data will be collected over a period of two weeks. Firs the researcher will seek for

permission to collect the from the origination within a grace period of one month. Once

the researcher is given the permission, the next step will be booking for appointment with

the management of the organisation. This will income mailing of the questionnaire to that

manager who will have a busy schedule to administer the questionnaire themselves and

the researcher will collect them later. After the research has collect all questions and

identified the particular organisation cultures, the researcher will continue with observing

the employees at work in order to assess how some of these cultures are being practised

in the organisation and also to assess their effects in motivating the employees.

e) Data analysis and presentation

The collected data will be analysed in order to make it easy for evaluation. In this regard

simple data analysis tools will be used. The data will be analysed using means,

percentages, standard deviation, and others. The colleted data will be analysed and

compared to the secondary data from the literature in order to assess the level of

motivation of the employees in the organisation as far as the organisation culture is

concerned.

The analysed data will then be presented to the organisation and the for them to take

further action of conclusion and recommendation that will have been made from the

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research. The researcher will seek to have an appointment to present the result of the

study either to the whole board or to the human resource department.

f) Limitations and assumption

There are various assumptions that will have been made in the course of the research and

there are also a number of limitations that are likely to be encounters.

It will be assumed that the selected sample represent the characteristic of the actual

population. In this regard the selected population will be assuming to give data that can

be attributed to the whole population the organisation.

It will also be assumed that the researcher will be granted permissions to carry out

research in Penine foods.

It has also been assumed that in case the manager is mailed the questionnaire they will fill

them and return them in time.

There are number of limitation that is extended to be encountered.

There may be a limitation in securing time for an interview to administer the question

with the top manage in the organisation.

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