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Intrinsic Rewards and Employee's Performance With the Mediating Mechanism of Employee's Motivation
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The prime goal of this study is to analyze the impact of intrinsic rewards on the performance of an employee. It also focuses on the role of motivation of the employee as an intervening factor. To achieve this objective, data have been collected through the questionnaire method from small and medium enterprises of Pakistan. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed to the target population, and 300 were received. To test the hypotheses, the confirmatory factor analysis and the structural equation modeling have been used. The main results of the study have shown a positive and significant impact of intrinsic rewards on the performance of the employee. Specifically, the study reveals that the motivation of an employee significantly mediates the association between intrinsic rewards and the performance of the employee. In the light of the findings, implications are outlined.
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“Others are more highly influenced by extrinsic rewards, and others are more influenced by intrinsic rewards like appreciation and recognition (Katabalo & Mwita, 2024;Manzoor et al., 2021).”
From Rewards and Employee Performance in Government Agencies: Evidence from Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Uganda (2026) · cites this paper as Manzoor et al., 2021
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“Employees are likely to show greater commitment, effort, and performance when they feel that the rewards are fair and meaningful (Manzoor et al., 2021).”
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“Employees in East Africa vary with their responses to reward structure in three contexts; institutional, depending on the individual preference, and performance of the quality of implementation.”
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“This elicits a positive emotional reaction and works to motivate them to continue to improve as well as make lasting behavioral changes when needed (Ryan and Deci, 2020; Manzoor et al, 2021).”
From Evaluation and Enhancement of Existing Intervention Programs for Juvenile Delinquency (2023) · cites this paper as Manzoor et al, 2021
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Metadata
- Authors
- Manzoor, F., Wei, L., & Asif, M.
- Affiliations
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Wei, Longbao
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2021-07-15
- Volume
- 12
- Pages
- 563070-563070
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8319625
- OpenAlex
- W3187017376
- Cited by
- 191
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 31 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 32 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 4
- FWCI
- 58.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Zhejiang University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Employee Performance and Management
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Employee Performance and Motivation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Keywords
- intrinsic rewards, employee performance, employee motivation, mediating effect, small and medium-sized enterprises, human resource management
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