Motivation is one of the most important factors influencing workers' productivity. An increase in workers' motivation could add more value to organizations' structure and influence the profitability, significantly. In this paper, we study different factors on demotivating workers using questionnaire consist of various questions. The questionnaire is distributed among some employees who work for rubber production units located in Esfahan, Iran. The results of this survey indicate that discrimination on annual job compensation, entrusting responsibilities and unpleasant relationship with family partner are some of the most important factors influencing employees' motivation. While financial factors play important role on increasing employees' motivation, non-financial factors are considered more important.
DOI: j.msl.2011.08.012 Keywords: Motivation ,Worker skills ,Productivity ,Efficiency How to cite this paper: Iravani, M. (2012). Demotivating factors influencing rubber production workers.Management Science Letters, 2(1), 273-278.
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