Motivation is a crucial element for employees in order to drive them to improve their performance and productivity. However, the turnover problem is getting serious from day to day, especially in banking sector. It indicates that there must be somehow related to the motivation of the employees. The researcher had chosen the elements of McClelland Three-Needs Theory as the factor that motivate employees. They are need for achievement, need for power and need for affiliation. The objectives of this research are to examine the relationship between need for achievement and employees’ motivation, to investigate the relationship between need for power and employees’ motivation, to identify the relationship between need for affiliation and employees’ motivation and to identify the most dominant factor that influence employees’ motivation. A set of questionnaire that consists of Likert-scale questions of each variable is distributed to 183 bank employees in Kuala Terengganu. The data collected are analysed by using SPSS 19.0. It is found out that the most dominant factor that influences employees’ motivation is need for achievement and need for power and affiliation have low degree correlation with employees’ motivation. The findings and recommendations is believed to be useful for future research.