Organizational communication and motivation relationship: An application

Contemporary organizations aim to convene and unify the goals of organizations and employees. In reaching their targets, just like organizations have expectations from their employees, employees have differing expectations from their organizations. These expectations that compose the main source of motivation can be fulfilled by organizational communication that occur spontaneously and constantly. Organizational communication can be used for understanding organizational values in order to accelerate the process of the adaptation and organizational commitment of the employees. The process of motivation of the employees will be shortened and the perception of communication will be increased, as the employees adapt to their organizations and establish feelings of belonging to their organizations. The objective of this master's thesis is to determine whether organizational communication practices have an effect on the motivation of employees by giving information about organizational communication and motivation. In this context, the level of impact on employee motivation of formal and informal communication systems established in enterprises will be measured. The main objective of this master thesis is to understand whether organizational communication practices have an effect on the motivation of employees, and if they do, to determine how they affect employees' motivaiton. In this context, motivation levels of employees was measured in formal and informal communication structures in business. In this study, an applied research was conducted to the employees of a private firm. Data were collected via a survey prepared by us and results were analyzed by SPSS 20.0 program.