Introduction

What are motivation and empowerment?
Motivation is the set Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to achieve the goal. It can be result from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factor such as intensity of need, incentive or reward of the goal and expectation of the individual or peers.
Empowerment is a process that provides greater autonomy to employee through sharing information and the provision of control over factor affecting job performance, like delegate the power or authority to the subordinate in the organization.
Motivational methods – Goal Setting Theory

Goal Setting Theory is involves the department or supervisor plan to motivate an employee toward the goals.
This theory helps employee to be motivated and they are stimulated and interested to achieve the goal. For example if the sale team can achieve the sale target. The team will get a 10% bonus of their wage.
Motivational methods - Job Enrichment

Job Enrichment is a theory that changes in job duties to increase employee’s authority and responsibility, the employees feel like their work has meaning and is important to the company. There are two different way, the first is vertical loading. It involves increasing job depth by adding responsibilities, like planning and controlling, previously held by the supervisors. The second is horizontal loading involves increasing the breadth of a job by adding to the variety of tasks that the worker performs.

The advantages of Job Enrichment are:

- Adding more responsibility, the employee will have chance to learn new skills and work the new things. By doing that employee has the opportunity proficient with certain task.
- It helps employee has a chance to step up in the company with their