Determinants of employee motivation: Gender, size of the organization and status of employee

The main purpose of this study is to outline and identify the main factors of internal and external motivation (determining their importance) for employees as well as to build the relationships that exist between motivation, satisfaction, and job engagement of employees in big and small companies by means of a survey. This work is focused mostly in analyzing the determinants of the employee motivation such as the gender, size of the organization and status of employee. This study starts with its first chapter where are included different important points like statement of the problem, variables, hypothesis and organization of the study. By use of the mentioned variables, questions of the survey are created and they are completed by the employees of two different companies. All assumed hypothesis of the researcher are tested by Chi-Square test and the results taken are supported by Cramer's V. Results show that motivation is an important issue for employees to perform their work better, and this does not depend on how big and small the company is, the position you have at work or the gender you are. Keywords : Internal and External Motivation, Work Satisfaction, Job Engagement.