The text discusses the complexity of motivation and the various theories that attempt to determine what causes motivation, how it manifests, and why it is particularly important in a business environment. This work describes only some of the numerous theories dealing with motivation, primarily focused on employee motivation. These theories are divided into two groups: content theories and process theories. While content theories focus on the factors that cause specific human behaviors, the essence of process theories is cognition, providing an explanation for why employees behave in different ways. In the second part of the paper, state administrative organization is described, including what it represents, how it functions, and the tasks it performs. Motivation in the work environment, employee motivation factors, and the motivating strategies that organizations employ are explored and described. Material rights of state officials and employees are also presented, and previous research related to their motivation is briefly outlined. The aim of this work was to determine the level of motivation among employees of the State Geodetic Administration, using it as an example, and to identify the factors influencing it. An online survey was used as the research method, with the participation of 18 employees of the State Geodetic Administration. The survey consisted of demographic questions and questions related to assessing the level of motivation in their work. The survey results, presented at the end of the paper, show the factors that most or least influence employees, and the obtained results can serve the purpose of better understanding the needs of employees in the state administrative organization.