International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 04 | Apr -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 313 A Study on the Effect of Motivation among the Students of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of an Engineering College in Tamilnadu *Dr.N.Kuppuswamy , ** Dr. P.Sridharan, *** L.Vigneash *Professor and Principal, *** Assistant Professor /ECE, Maharaja Engineering College,Avinashi, Tamilnadu-641654 ** Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering, Vimal Jyothi Engineering College, Chemperi, Kannur- 670632 ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- ABSTRACT :Dozens of millions of tons of plastics and other debris The purpose of this study is to assess the rank of motivation attributes by the Engineering students. This study is carried out among students of Maharaja Engineering College who are assumed to be future Engineers. The survey is intended to get their response on what they feel the best attributes that could motivate them as future engineers among a list of twenty motivational attributes. By this method, the study sets to identify the most ranked attributes among the twenty motivational attributes. This analysis shows that Equal Treatment of Employees stands as the first rank among the most ranked attributes for this survey. However, the studies made by the past researchers showed that different results could be obtained from different groups of students from different engineering colleges at different locations. Keywords: - Motivation, Satisfaction, Organizational Behavior, Attributes, Equal treatment 1. Introduction to Motivation Motivation is the process of inducing people inner drives and actions toward certain goals and committing their energies to achieve these goals. Motivation is the very important factor in estimating the behavior of the individual. Every organization has people with outstanding abilities who perform better than others. Some people perform well compare to others because of motivations. 1.1 Importance of Motivation Motivation is one of the important functions of the management without which organizational objectives are difficult to achieve. It is an integral part of the management process and every manager must motivate his subordinates to create in them the will to work. Motivation is necessary for the better performance. The importance of motivation is briefly given below. a) Motivation creates a willingness of workers to do their work in a better way. b) Motivation is the basis of co-operation to get the best results out of the efforts of the men on the job. c) Proper utilization of human resources possible since it inspires employees to make best possible use of different factors of production. d) Higher motivation leads to job satisfaction and hence labor absenteeism and turnover are reduced.