Designing an Employee Motivation Development Model (Qualitative Research with Data-Based Method)

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Payam Noor University, Tehran: Iran

3 Human Capital Manager, Bidboland Gas Refinery, Persian Gulf

10.22059/jomc.2025.393478.1008812

Abstract

Human resources are the most important competitive advantage and organizational capital, and employees are considered the main source of change, creativity, learning, and innovation. Given that today's employees of organizations have many problems in their lives and careers, planning to develop and motivate employees is strongly felt. Accordingly, the present study was conducted with the aim of developing an employee motivation model in the Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refining Company. The qualitative method and the data-based theory strategy were used to conduct the research. The study field included all experts, specialists, and senior managers in the field of human resources and familiar with the Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refining Company, and 17 of them were interviewed using the theoretical sampling method and theoretical strategy. The research tool was a semi-structured interview. The open, axial, and selective coding methods were used to analyze the qualitative findings. The results of the research showed that "intrinsic motivation and job motivation" were proposed as the central categories, "organizational factors, management and leadership factors, job factors and material and welfare factors" as causal conditions, "human resource management strategies and employee personal development" as strategies, the categories of "employee group and organizational culture and atmosphere" as the context, "organizational maturity and excellence and organizational structure" as intervening conditions. Paying attention to these categories can cause individual and organizational consequences in the Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Refining Company.

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