The purpose of this final work was to connect and harmonize concepts that are closely related to each other. These are job satisfaction and motivation at work. Human resources are the most important resource of all resources, so daily research is carried out to improve them. Employee motivation is one of the most important human resource management factors, and managers are trying to answer questions that cause certain human behavior and how employee behavior can be affected. In order for a company to be more successful, employees should be satisfied. Satisfied employees who are motivated to work contribute to better achievement of the goals which results in more successful business operations. In the introduction part are explained what motivation and satisfaction are and what is their purpose. In the theoretical part are explained what is satisfaction and which individual characteristic affecting on work satisfaction and the factors that affect satisfaction. Afterward are presented the relationship of satisfaction and motivation and their diffrences. Also are presented theories of motivation and outlined and extended the theories which are used in the empirical research. The empirical research contains survey that were shared with the employees of the restaurant Nautika in which they expressed the level of their satisfaction and motivation after which we collected the results of the research and analyzed them.