Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation is important determinant of employee’s task performance as it represents the level ofmotivation of employees to their work and company. This study examined the influence of intrinsic and extrinsicmotivation on employees’ task performance and also aimed to find out the difference between males and females ontask performance based on their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The Work Preference Inventory (Amabile, T. M., etal., 1994) and Job Performance Scale (Goodman, & Svyantek, 1999) was used to gather data. It was predicted thatintrinsic and extrinsic motivation will be positively correlated with employees’ task performance and will have impacton employees’ task performance. The results showed that intrinsic and extrinsic motivation has positive correlationwith employee’s task performance and intrinsic and extrinsic motivation has impact on employee’s task performance.Findings also show that females are more intrinsically motivated as compared to males.