interviews. These periods are most often greater than
6 months, and in most cases performed annually.
With today's communication dynamics, employees
can be influenced at any time by external factors of
market supply and demand, as well as
communications with peers and colleagues in the
device mesh. It is becoming increasingly important to
obtain real-time information to take preventive or
corrective measures in a timely manner. On the other
hand, interview responses and questionnaires do not
always faithfully reflect the degree of satisfaction or
dissatisfaction of employees, who often prefer not to
expose their real sentiments.
This paper proposes a conceptual framework for
real-time motivational analysis using artificial
intelligence techniques in order to evaluate
employee’ motivation at work. The motivation is
evaluated from different groups of indicators: a static
and periodic group (interviews and questionnaires),
and two other dynamic groups that collect
information in real time.
2 RELATED WORKS
We reviewed the literature related motivational
analysis using artificial intelligence techniques,
especially the analysis of sentiments and natural
language processing. We found four scientific articles
which deserve to be highlighted.
The first one presented by Tay and Diner (2011)
analyses a sample from 123 countries. It evaluates the
correlation between the fulfilment of necessities
(Maslow, Deci and Ryan, Ryff and Keyes theories)
and subjective well-being, including life assessment
of positive and negative sentiments. Within the
various cultures studied, using statistical analysis and
regression techniques, they found that the attendance
of the psychosocial needs is adherent to the
conditions of the country. On the other hand,
fulfilment of basic and security needs is not
associated with the conditions of the country.
The second article described by Akdemir and
Arslan (2013) focused to measure of teacher
motivation. For this, they constructed a set of 51
attributes based on the motivational and hygienic
factors of Herzberg. These attributes were evaluated
using a five-point scale (none, small, moderate, very,
and completely). In addition, as a pilot test, the scale
was applied to 150 teachers from different areas of
Zonguldak Province, Turkey. In order to evaluate the
data, the authors used factorial analysis, correlation
tests, and data normalization. The results indicated a
reliable and valid motivational scale that can be used
to measure teacher motivation in four dimensions:
communication, professional growth, institutional
progress and expectations.
In the study published by Medhat, Hassan and
Korashy (2014), the objective was to provide an
overview on algorithms and applications used for the
analysis of sentiments. These was described in 54
recently published articles (2010 to 2013) on this
subject. The authors emphasize that the sentiment
classification algorithms and features selection
techniques are still research fields to be explored. On
the other hand, Naive Bayes and Support Vector
Machines are Machine Learning approach algorithms
most frequently used to solve problems related to
sentiment classification. The main source is the
lexicon WordNet which is available in several
languages besides English.
In the Ravi and Ravi (2015) paper, the authors
worked on opinion mining in 160 papers published
between 2002 and 2015. They used approaches and
applications commonly required for the analysis of
sentiments. The research is organized based on sub-
tasks to be performed, machine learning and natural
language processing techniques. In the literature
review carried out by the authors, seven dimensions
were analysed: subjective classification, sentiment
classification, measurement review utility, lexical
creation, opinion word and aspect of product
extraction, opinion spam detection and several
opinion mining applications. In addition, the
identified approaches involved lexical-based machine
learning, hybrid approaches, ontologies-based
approaches and non-ontologies (considered for
lexical creation and feature extraction).
Considering the above, it was noticed that the
studies analysed aspects related to motivational
analysis from artificial intelligence techniques,
especially analysis of sentiments and natural
language (Akdemir and Arslan 2013, Ravi and Ravi
2015). However, it should be noted that the study by
Ravi and Ravi (2015) deals with a bibliographic
review, whereas the study by Akdemir and Arslan
(2013) uses an approach to analyse the motivation of
teachers in the academic context.
3 PROPOSED APPROACH
In this study we sought to analyse motivation in the
business context. Our approach considers, besides the
commonly used questionnaires, different sources to
obtain information related to motivation of the
employees.