Work motivation, Job performance, Human Resources, Gender approach, Comparison of means
Abstract
Motivation is the impulse that moves the behavior of workers towards personal and organizational objectives, so it must be measured in terms of job performance to determine performance objectively. In this article, this phenomenon was analyzed through a gender perspective, taking as study subjects the workers of a company that sells backpacks in the city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras in the first semester of 2022, through a study with a quantitative approach, explanatory scope. and cross-sectional non-experimental design, an instrument of 25 items on a Likert scale from 1 to 5 was applied by means of an electronic survey to the total population of 30 employees, verifying by means of the results of the means comparison tests for two means with equal variances under the t-Student distribution that the influence of motivation on the perception of performance in the company is different between women and men, the latter presenting equal levels of performance with lower levels of motivation.
