Organizations rely on both permanent and temporary employees to run effectively. While temporary employees cost less due to lacking benefits, organizations should still motivate them. Motivating temporary workers helps improve productivity and competitiveness. Providing clear instructions, addressing grievances, offering bonuses and incentives for good work can motivate temporary employees to complete projects effectively.

1. Managing temporary employees/workers through motivation
Organizations to run effectively and efficiently need employees or staff for carrying out their
businesses in a smooth manner. Organizations need not show any discrepancy when hiring
employees as temporary employees or full time/permanent employees. The employees as a
human capital requires huge investment on part of organizations and therefore employing
temporary staff are ideal for short term based projects as temporary workers or employees
comes at lower cost due to absence of providing them permanent benefits and
compensation. Organizations can just hire the temporary workers through staffing
agencies immediately at the heck of a call.
However, it does not mean that organizations behave with temporary employees or workers
improperly when compared with permanent employees. Temporary workers easily get
frustrated when they see that their permanent counterparts are benefiting from employer
incentives and if they do not work as a team with other staff (permanent employees); the
dynamics could affect the concerned company’s productivity. Therefore, motivating
temporary employees or workers would have a good edge over the competitors.
Organizations must ensure that the work place is ideal and have environment that is
conducive in attracting the best and enthusiastic workers.
Organizations must be able to provide motivating tools that the staff needs to do their work
well in the form of well-structured training or safe work environment with the latest or
updated equipment. The temporary or contingent work force would be motivated when the
organization takes on the following activities:
Have realistic expectations: Organizations hiring the temporary workers should have
realistic expectations that are duly aligned with the compensation that the organization can
afford. A professional staffing agency can help in finding the right skilled staff and screen
them for ability, organizational fit and reliability.

2. Providing clear instructions with respect to individual responsibilities: Organizations
must ensure that temporary staff has a supervisor or team leader to ensure that their
grievances are heard of. Ambiguity or misunderstanding can ruin the projects undertaken
by the organization if the staff is demoralized.
Give bonuses, incentives, gift cards etc: Temporary employees feels motivated when
the employer awards bonuses or gives gifts to star temporary employees. For instance,
organizations can offer completion bonus for temporary workers when they work for the
entire projects with success. Pre-planned weekend vacations can also enhance the mood of
temporary workers and encourage them to work harder in the office.
These above mentioned motivational factors would help temporary workers to complete the
project in an effective manner.