Employee Motivation!

What I can do for employee motivation a part from
1) Birthday Celebration
2) Best Employee Award
3) Picnic or Tour
4) Get to gather
5) Sports Activity
Pls suggest I need your views on Employee Motivation

Dear jaimin
We have been doing all the activities you have mention and it has really shows some result during the last few years. Also you can do one more thing that you can add EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION SURVEY which will results in more good results.
It also helps in emplyee retention schemes.
Further you can add Best Attandance Awards for the year ( even excludes the leaves from the attendance).

Pay was not ranked as one of the most important motivational factors by Kovach (1987), but was ranked second in this research and by Harpaz (1990). Full appreciation of work done was not ranked as one of the most important motivational factors by Harpaz (1990), but was ranked second in this research and by Kovach (1987). The discrepancies in these research findings supports the idea that what motivates employees differs given the context in which the employee works. What is clear, however, is that employees rank interesting work as the most important motivational factor.