Liderança e motivação no contexto organizacional

• Autor(a) principal: Costa, Helena Cristina Mota da
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/19587
• topic: Liderança; Motivação; Comportamento; Clima organizacional; Ambiente de trabalho; Leadership; Motivation; Behaviour; Organizational climate; Work environment; Gestão

Context: Leadership and motivation are two essential themes for the success of organizations, as the correct exercise of leadership can contribute to greater motivation. Indeed, through the study of organizational motivation we can infer about the influence of leadership on it. Leadership is seen as a connection between leaders and followers, which presupposes increasing levels of organizational motivation. In this context, it is considered pertinent to study and analyse the influ-ence of leadership on the motivation of employees in organizations. Research question and objectives: Leadership and motivation in an organisational context were delimited as topics, with the following research question: what is the role of the leader in the motivational context of the employees? And as the specific objectives, the following: to carry out a sociodemographic characterization of the respondents; to assess the level of motivation of em-ployees and the importance they attribute to the leader for this motivation; to measure the degree of importance attributed to motivating factors according to hierarchical position, gender and age; to identify the most and least relevant motivational factor for each dimension; to characterize the current and the effective leader; to check if there are similarities between the characterization of the current and the effective leader; to assess the most and least identified characteristics of leaders according to gender, age and hierarchical position; to define the most and least identified leadership style; to realize if there are similarities in the perceptions of employees and leaders regarding the characteristics of the leaders. Research design: This is a descriptive, quantitative study. We chose to investigate collaborators from organizations. The data were collected through a survey questionnaire, applied to the em-ployed population over 18 years of age. 117 valid participations were collected. Results: The results show that most participants are motivated and believe that their leader has an important role in their motivation. It appears that the motivational factors that stand out are: career advancement, the salary is adequate for the function, the loyalty of the responsible for the employees, a work environment where there is trust and respect, good working conditions and recognition for the work done. The data also demonstrate that the most expressive leadership styles in the participants' answers are the task-oriented leadership style and people-oriented lead-ership style. Contributions: Based on the evaluation of the employee's motivational matrix, his/her behavior can be predicted. The motivational structure will serve as the basis for the elaboration of the motivational profile, where the most relevant motivations and goals will be determined. Having knowledge of the aspects in which employees are motivated or unmotivated and the factors con-sidered most relevant, the organization can act in order to increase motivation. Refining identified strategies or critical factors, refers to a contribution to studies in this area. Portuguese organiza-tions, namely their leaders, should pay attention to some important characteristics or behavior for their effective leadership.