Caroline njambi united states international university africa

2.4.7 Other Effects on Motivation 
In additions to the above, it has been claimed that motivated employees tend to have better 
mental and physical health and learn new job related tasks more quickly. All these considered 
by practicing managers and organizational behavior researchers, they would agree that 
employee motivation is important to an organization. Critics however, point out this is pure 
assumption because there is so much we do not know about the positive effects of motivation. 
On the other hand, when employee motivation is low, there seems to be negative effects on 

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the organization that have been documented. So if only from the standpoint of viewing 
employee motivation as a minimum requirement or point of departure, it is of value to the 
organization‟s overall health and effectiveness and is deserving of study and application in the 
field of organizational behavior (Van and Adonisi, 2008). 
2.5 Chapter Summary 
This chapter has presented a review of pertinent literature of employee motivation in 
organizations. Arising from this review, various researched theories have been presented. It is 
therefore important for this research to provide empirical evidence of these theories. Research 
in this area will provide more knowledge on the extent to which these theories are relatable to 
Kenyan organizations and with Amref Health Africa in Kenya as a case study. The next 
chapter will present imperative research methods that will be used to conduct this research. 

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CHAPTER THREE 
3.0 RESEARCH METHODOLGY 
3.1 Introduction 
This chapter presents the research methodology that was used to conduct this study thus, it 
focused on the following: research design, population and sampling techniques, data 
collection methods, research procedures, and data analysis methods.