“…First, the previous study showed that a reward management system can significantly influence a workforce and can be motivated to improve their efforts and performance (Rai et al, 2018), and therefore, different rewards have been employed to measure performance such as monetary reward (Aguinis et al, 2013), remuneration (Calvin, 2017), and enough pay and bonus (Pouliakas, 2010); hence, we indicated intrinsic reward for measuring employee performance. Second, only a few studies discovered the relationship between intrinsic reward and employee performance and used some mediators such as organizational commitment (Taba, 2018) and reward system (Riasat et al, 2016), but no study has employed employee motivation as mediators. Third, very limited research has been performed to examine intrinsic reward-the performance of the employee in the Pakistan context by using mediating mechanisms, but no study has explored that in SMEs.…”