Caroline njambi united states international university africa

5.3.3Impact of Employee Motivation on Performance
The study found that most respondents felt that absenteeism, employee productivity and 
employee turnover affects employee motivation. Absenteeism affects employees performance 
in the organization, in that it makes employees withdraw from the organization, care less and 
hence low output in their performance which may be due to job dissatisfaction. These findings 
agrees with Anderson (2004) who also noted that absenteeism is as a result of job 
dissatisfaction emanating from other factors such as stressful work situations. Motivation to 
attend work is also another contributing factor to absenteeism as noted by Obasan (2011). 
According to Vlosky and Aguilar (2009), absenteeism may be too costly to the organization 
because it contributes to the ineffectiveness of the organization because of low productivity of 
the employees. 
The study indicated that employee productivity affects employee motivation. This is because 
employee motivation leads to increased productivity. These findings agrees with Wentzel and 
Wigfield (2009) who found out that productivity affects employees‟ motivation in terms of 
business long-run successes. Productivity increase as organization finds new ways to use 
fewer resources to produce its output. Since through gains in productivity organizations tend 
to reduce costs, save the scare resources and enhance profits.
The also study found out that employee turnover employee affects motivation. Employee 
turnover is when employees leave the organizations and have to be replaced. When there is a 

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high turnover in the organization, employee tends to feel insecure with their jobs and hence 
affects their performance. These findings agrees with Van and Adonisis (2008) who also 
found out that employee turnover affects the behaviors (withdrawal) of the employees and 
their loyalty to the organizations which affects employee motivation.
It is apparent that the employees are probably the most important resources that an 
organization possesses. Therefore, it is perceived that when the employees are working at 
their full capacity the performance in the organization is boosted markedly (Kalimullah, 
et al.,
2010). Therefore, the impact of employee‟s level of motivation in performance is irrefutable 
fact. For instance, performance appraisal has a positive ramification on the performance in 
any organization.