@article{article_1541276, title={THE NEED FOR A MOTIVATED WORKFORCE TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY}, journal={SDE Akademi}, volume={5}, pages={105–135}, year={2025}, DOI={10.58375/sde.1541276}, author={Maria, Augusto Umba Manuel}, keywords={Motivation, Labor Force, Productivity}, abstract={This research particularly refers to motivation of the workforce in the business context. The research provides systematic and exhaustive knowledge that contributes extensively to the area of people management research. It gains a exclusive attention for organizations within the context of people management as it provides useful scientific information about how an organization can keep its workforce motivated for greater labor productivity. By drawing on suitable scientific literature, it is desired to provide useful information about how to motivate workpeople in the workplace and why it is essential. In this way, the research aims to analyze motivation as a crucial factor to improve productivity. In order to theoretically study the topic of the research and develop it, firstly, a general literature review is conducted by searching the relevant scientific literature that describes the topic under study. The research consists of two main points of analysis. The first main point of the research deals particularly with motivation in the workplace, describing all the interesting scientific concepts and theories about motivation in the business context. The second main point of the research copes particularly with productivity, aiming to describe all relevant scientific concepts and theories about productivity in the business context. The other points of the research deal with other interesting subjects related to the topic of the research in general. In order to reach the objective of the research, conceptual research is conducted by theoretically reviewing the scientific literature that generally conceives the topic of the research. In this study, conceptual research is defined as a methodology in which research is conducted through observation and analysis of currently available information about a given topic.}, number={1}, publisher={Stratejik Düşünce ve Araştırma Vakfı (SDAV)}