Employee Motivation and Organizational Performance: Empirical Evidence from Secondary Schools in Mogadishu-Somalia

This paper attempts to identify the impact of motivation on employee performance in order to address problems arising from motivational approaches in organizational settings in Mogadishu, Somalia. The paper had three main objectives which are: 1) To identify the relationship between work environment and organizational performance at secondary schools in Mogadishu. 2) To examine the relationship between cooperation and organizational performance secondary schools in Mogadishu, Somalia. 3) To explore the relationship between facilitation and organizational performance secondary schools in Mogadishu-Somalia. The researchers utilized convenient sampling to collect 100 questionnaires from twelve secondary schools in Mogadishu, Somalia. Employees of these schools provided a questionnaire with four main construct which measuring work environment, cooperation, facilitation and organizational performance. However, using correlation coefficient, the study found that organizational performance (Dependent variable) had significant positive influence with two independent variables namely, work environment, and facilitation. Also, the result of regression analysis found that two constructs had statistically significant, positive, and direct effects on the organizational performance. Finally, regarding these two hypotheses; this study supported; the most indicator of employee motivation was facilitation; the employees like the managers who motivate them in the workforce.