Factors Affecting Employee Job Satisfaction and Motivation of Public Sector

The main aim of this study is to investigate the effective factors that motivate employees in the public sector, in Erbil – Iraq. The sample of the study includes all the employees in the public sector. The targeted population size for the study is 250 employees who selected randomly.A questionnaire 40 has designed and used to record information based on a Likert scale (five scores) includes about the employees’ characteristics and regarding the motivational factors. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS program by using methods containing descriptive statistics, chi-square.The results show the effective factors that incentive the employees in the organizations are in line with the multidimensional structure of psychological and sociological issues and recognizing all these tasks and mastering them and proposing and submitting solutions makes the tasks and responsibilities of the managers more difficult.Research include “Promotion”, “interesting work”, “Work environment”, “salary”, “promotion”,“reward”, “job security”, “workgroup”“responsibility” and lastly play a significant role in motivating employees. Keywords: Employee motivation, job satisfaction,performance,chi-square