| Summary: | The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees and employers across the globe has been incredibly dramatic. It has changed the way organisations function, forcing many to partake in remote working and enforcing everyone to socially distance from one another, as per government guidelines. Within these unprecedented times it is vital that businesses can maintain their human capital to a high level in order to ensure they have a competitive advantage. This is why the motivation of employees is imperative to the smooth functioning of a business. Prior research has highlighted the importance of collective efficacy and cooperation within teams, which is the focus of this thesis.
The research conducted was a quantitative, repeated measures design whereby participants were asked to fill out a questionnaire on their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to attempt to understand how their perceptions of collective efficacy and cooperation in teams had changed. Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks tests showed that there was a statistically significant difference between collective efficacy and team cooperation before and during the pandemic, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on these aspects of motivation. Furthermore, a Spearman’s correlation showed that there was a weak, positive relationship between participants experience of remote working prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and team cooperation. This thesis has provided some suggestions for future research, such as exploring the possible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic other motivational factors, looking into whether the age of participants has an effect on the results, as well as considering the potential implications and recommendations of this research.
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