A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION AMONG WORKERS OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIMITED TEA GARDEN IN JORHAT DISTRICT, ASSAM, INDIA

The study discusses the Employee Motivation level between public and private Ltd. tea garden workers of Jorhat district of Assam, India. Motivation positively affects work performance because if employees are not motivated to work, they will not exhibit positive work behavior. An organization can benefit from having motivated workers because their success closely correlates with the success of the company. Scale of employee motivation was used for data collection which was developed by Dr. A.K. Srivastava (1988). For this study, a total of 160 workers were chosen as respondents. Out of 160 respondents 90 respondents were chosen from public limited and 70 respondents were chosen from private limited tea garden of Assam. Out of 90 public tea garden workers, 41 were male and 49 were female. Similarly, out of 70 private tea garden workers, 32 were male and 38 were female. The main objective of this study is to find out the significant difference between public and private Ltd. tea garden workers. SPSS was employed for data analysis. Data were analyzed based on descriptive statistics including ‘t’ test to see the significant differences between two public and private Ltd. tea garden workers, and Inferential statistics –ANOVA to see the significant differences among four groups of employees. ANOVA result shows the significant difference among the four groups. The findings were reviewed in the context of other pertinent investigations.