Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences

The main focus of this study is to investigates the effect of motivational factors on employee performance in the private sector in Malaysia. The motivation factors that has been investigate in this study includes wages & salary, reward & recognition and working environment. A questionnaire was adapted in this study in order to collect all the data needed from the respondents. This study uses a simple random sampling method in order to choose the respondents for answer the questionnaire that prepared. A cross-sectional survey was employed, and the primary data were purposively collected through the distribution of copies of the questionnaires to 97 staff of private companies in Northern Malaysia validly filled and returned representing 100 % response rate. According to the findings of this study using regression analysis, it shows that wages, salary, reward & recognition have recorded not significant relationship with the employee performance in the private sector in Malaysia. This is said because wages salary, variable recorded p – value is at 0.492, reward and recognition variable recorded p – value is 0.756. This study has confirmed that working environment motivational factor have a significant relationship with the employee performance in the private sector in Malaysia. This can be seen when the working environment motivational factor recorded the p – value less than 0.05 in the regression analysis which is at 0.000. Based on this study finding and other supported findings from the other journals, it is clear that there is a significant relationship between the working environment motivational factor and employee performance in the private sector in Malaysia.