The instability of the current economic and socio-political conditions implies the need for adaptation, or permanent revision of the methods and procedures applied by the motivational management at the level of each organization, the economic entities being in the situation of finding new ways of employees' motivation, resources that support and maintain the flexibility and continuous accommodation characters, to inherent changes. Based on the results recently obtained following an empirical research on employees from a certain region of Romania, the purpose of this work is to emphasize certain aspects that can be taken into account by practicing managers, in establishing the motivating factors that lead to the achievement of organizational performance objectives by increasing the individual and group workplace performances of the employed personnel. Also, our analysis takes into account the catalyst effects that characteristics such as the type of organization based on self-esteem or the personality type of the individual, have on the motivation process, the working hypotheses investigating these features as well.