Abstract:
Some people love their work because it is interesting and provides them with psychological satisfaction too, more than money. There are many contemporary research studies supporting the effectiveness of non-financial rewards as a motivation tool for employee job satisfaction. This study also will try to shed light on this issue and aims to demonstrate whether there is a significant relationship between non-financial rewards and job satisfaction of the Administrative officersin the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Non-financial motivators such as Achievement, Advancement, Recognition and Responsibility were identified based on the literature. A census survey was conducted among all Administrative officers using a questionnaire to collect primary data and Correlation and Regression analyses were used to analyse them. Results show that non-financial motivators successfully predict job satisfaction. 72% of the variation in job satisfaction is explained by non-financial rewards. Responsibility is the most important non-financial reward which affects their job satisfaction while Recognition and Advancement are respectively significant for job satisfaction.
