...Introduction Work motivation is a fundamental part of the organisation to increase its performance. Modern organizations are increasingly becoming project-oriented to cope with the challenges of global competition. Place together work motivation in traditional and matrix project-based organizations is of primary interest, Bredillet (2010) Alstom.Ltd with around 5,000 employees belongs to Alstom Group. The company is the leader in integrated power plants for energy production. Alstom.Ltd has solutions for a wide range of energy sources, divided into four main sectors; Thermal Service, Steam, Gas Generation, and Automation. Due to the size of the company, market stability and history, it is mainly a hierarchical structure Huczynski A, (2010). Main services are Power Generation Projects. Due to the nature of these kinds of projects, different disciplines like Engineering, Finance, Quality and Sales are involved on each Project. Therefore the company has global hierarchical structure but at Project level they work within a Matrix Organisation. PMI.Institute (2012) defined matrix organizations as a blend of functional and project organisation, where employees report on day-to-day performance to the Project Manager and on their overall performance to the head of their department, Functional Manager . By the mid–1990s Alstom.Ltd, originally ABB, developed a matrix structure crisscrossing around a hundred countries and sixty five business sectors, Lee G.(2008). The own nature...
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