Self‐determination and associated self‐efficacy are broad theories of human motivations that have grown in importance in many domains of psychology, particularly organizational psychology, during the last four decades. This has been in development for more than four decades, with the original focus on internal motivation and its antecedents and implications. This rapidly led to a study of the relationships among motivational factors, as well as the classification of extrinsic motivation kinds in terms of autonomy. The objectives of the following research are: to evaluate the private organizations had a more effective partnership between organizations and employees that ensures better job performance, to discover that private organizations encouraged employees to work hard, to discover that employees with Bachelor's degrees had more self‐determination and improved performance in an organization. The methodology adopted was Qualitative research with data collection of 300 employees belonging to 2 private and 2 public organizations in Lahore, Pakistan.