By writing this thesis,goal is to expand theoretical knowledge, but also to increase awareness about importance of forming quality system of motivation and compensation inside enterprise. Human resources are the key resource of every organisation and main strength for obtaining competitive advantage and it's in the enterprise's interest to motivate existing resources but also attract new talents with different kinds of material and non-material strategies. In the theoretical part of thesis, key terms motivation and compensation are defined and analyzed, on which is topic of the thesis based. About the empirical part, research was conducted in period of one month, within 54 employees. Through the research, it's concluded that employees are relatively highly motivated for work and also positive correlation is found between motivation and compensation system. Most of employees are satisfied with existing compensation system. Statistically signifficant difference wasn't found between material and non-material forms of compensation, although it was maybe expected that salary will play dominant role. Statistically signifficant difference was also found in satisfaction with salary between employees with different salary range, but there is no statically signifficant different in level of motivation by salary. In the end, it's concluded that enterprise Zec set up good basics within motivation and compensation system, but also need to continue to work on them and on their constant improvement.