A Study on Millennial Generation in Vietnam on the Factors to Motivate Employees

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Nhu-Ty Nguyen, Luong-Hoai-Thuong Pham

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In this paper, we will overview the most of theories in the field of motivation and retest the practical contexts in reality to tackle the questions of the ways to motivate employees. The test of this paper is expected to find out the factors which could upgrade the motivation index of employees in work environment. The model of contexts that influence the work motivation in special case of Vietnamese youngsters will perform and organize into 4 components: Organizational and team culture/ climate, Leadership/ Social relations, Organizational practice and policies and Work role and job demand/ design in the third chapter. Last but not least, the final sector would figure out the gap in this research in point out the direction for future research performances in the field of motivating employees.

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