Abstract:

Employees are the guarantee of the company's success and survival. Their satisfaction, which is a result of fulfilment of their internal needs, contributes to the increase of economic efficiency of the company. Moreover, their work motivation determines the readiness to take diverse actions at work. Therefore, incentive systems are more and more often implemented to increase the level of workers’ satisfaction and their key competences such as innovation, entrepreneurship and flexibility in the enterprises. The appropriate development of such systems stimulates the actions of employees and influences their behavior to create safe work environment. It guarantees not only the improvement of health and safety at work, but most of all the reduction of the number of accidents and increase of work comfort. In the paper, an attempt was made to assess whether demographic variables affect the differentiation of the effectiveness of the non-material motivation factor that derives satisfaction from the performed work.