Search

Employee performance is important to public organizations. The public sector by considering the motivating factors and properly motivating its employees will affect the increase of employee performance. Therefore, the motivation of employees in the public sector is very important. The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of motivation factors and job performance for public sector employees. The dependent variable in this study is job performance. Independent variables are motivating factors, namely payment, promotion, work environment, superiors' collaboration and co-workers collaboration. According to the purpose of this study there are following the qualitative and quantitative methods. The research instrument used in this study is a structured questionnaire. The list of the public organizations was obtained from Vlore Employers' City (Albania). A total of 140 questionnaires were sent to the selected organizations. A total of 110 questionnaires were returned but only 97 useable. Secondary data for this study had been collected from journals articles, books and newspaper, which contributed to the review of literature. Data analysis was performed using SPSS. Multiple regression analysis using enter method was used to determine the relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variable. The results show that there is significant relationship between payment and job performance. However the relationship between promotion and job performance, work environment and job performance, supervisor's collaboration and job performance, and co-workers collaboration and job performance were found to be not significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides an overview of recent trends in tuition of public service employees on advanced training courses. The situation in Russian economy and public administration is rapidly changing. Information and communication technologies are being implemented in all areas of state regulation. The development of technologies, growing impact of ICT and introduction of e-government led to necessity to improve public sector employees' skills. The article reviews trends, federal laws, qualification requirements to public sector employees in usage of ICT in their professional activities. Russian Federal laws don't provide strict rules to the system of advanced training courses. The author describes main features and peculiarities of advanced training courses for public service employees. The article also provides brief descriptions of the main requirements to ICT skills which should be used in professional activities of public sector employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of present study is to investigate the relationship of performance and motivation amongst public sector employees. The present study is different from earlier research done on performance of job of employees; it extends to examine the relationship of performance and motivational dimensions of public sector employees. The results of the study indicates that there is a positive relationship between higher salary and performance of employees, the annual salary progression was observed to be main motivational factor for motivation and enhancement of performance of employees in a public sector organization. From the results, the authors suggests that the strategies for management of performance of employees can be devised according to the level of motivation of the employees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]