Discipline in Public Service (a Case Study of Ministry of Justice Wamako Local Government of Borno State)
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
Objectives of the study are;
- To ascertain the advantages of discipline in public service
- To ascertain the effect of discipline in ministry of justice, Wamako LGA
- To ascertain the role of discipline in civil servant’s life
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
The concept of discipline
Renowned authorities in the field of management and administration have done some works on what discipline is all about. Most often, these authorities have equally gave light or x-rayed the situations within which the concept of discipline becomes applicable in organizations. However, one interesting observation by the research was that most often, the idea of discipline is usually employed by those at the helm of affairs in an organization as a control device to check this excesses or recalcitrance in employees. Just as noted by Gillman (1962: 228) “an organization is a social device for accomplishing group objectives or complete issue beyond individuals effort. An organization is also made up of objective, people, function, relationship, rules and regulations”. Consequently, the public service is just like all other attributes mentioned above. Therefore, what could be obtained on the part of employees in any other organizations could also be obtained in the Nigeria public services. There are certain situation which could arise in organization’s which can bring pressure to bear on those at the helm of affairs in this organization to improve the means through which such situations could be brought to normal. For example, what happens when an employee violate established rules and regulations. What about deviant behaviours from the members of the organization? These and similar questions in organizations are handled by the subject of discipline and the discipline process. Hence, an absence of discipline could lead to crisis and the collapse of a system whether a modern business unit or public bureaucracy. Mcfarland (1987:400), define discipline as a state of orderliness without which an organization cannot maintain itself. According to him discipline also represents a state of mind of the individuals that is best described as willingness to subordinate his own immediate desire of the needs of the organization or group. He went further to add that a third meaning of discipline, confusing to many, is that, of punishment. A parent disciplines his child, usually with punishment or deprivation. As Beech (1980:521) suggests discipline is essential to all organized group action and members must control their individual and cooperate for the common good. In other words, they must reasonably conform to the code of behaviour established by the leadership of the organization so that the agreed upon goals can be accomplished.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research design
The researcher used descriptive research survey design in building up this project work the choice of this research design was considered appropriate because of its advantages of identifying attributes of a large population from a group of individuals. The design was suitable for the study as the study sought to discipline in public service (a case study of ministry of justice)
Sources of data collection
Data were collected from two main sources namely:
Primary source and Secondary source
Primary source:
These are materials of statistical investigation which were collected by the research for a particular purpose. They can be obtained through a survey, observation questionnaire or as experiment; the researcher has adopted the questionnaire method for this study.
Secondary source:
These are data from textbook Journal handset etc. they arise as byproducts of the same other purposes. Example administration, various other unpublished works and write ups were also used.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Introduction
Efforts will be made at this stage to present, analyze and interpret the data collected during the field survey. This presentation will be based on the responses from the completed questionnaires. The result of this exercise will be summarized in tabular forms for easy references and analysis. It will also show answers to questions relating to the research questions for this research study. The researcher employed simple percentage in the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain discipline in public service.
In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing the challenges of discipline in public service.
Summary
This study was on discipline in public service. Three objectives were raised which included; To ascertain the advantages of discipline in public service, to ascertain the effect of discipline in ministry of justice, Wamako LGA, to ascertain the role of discipline in civil servant’s life. In line with these objectives, two research hypotheses were formulated and two null hypotheses were posited. The total population for the study is 200 staff of ministry of justice, Wamako local government of Sokoto state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made administrative staff, directors, senior staff and junior staff was used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
Conclusion
Discipline is for both junior and senior staff. It is discipline that ensures that staff improve upon their performance. All hands should be on deck to ensure that discipline is maintained. It is here suggested that to balance the lopsided equation more emphasis should be placed on the motivational aspects of discipline. There is need to applaud good performance and not merely to castigate unsatisfactory performance. Job satisfaction, on the other hand, is the core of motivation. It is suggested that decline in morale and discipline derives in part from decline in job satisfaction. To achieve job satisfaction employees, their skills should be emproved through training learning to learn, learning by doing. They should be deployed to job for which they are qualified.
Recommendation
It is evident that every employee joins the organization with specific expectations. When these expectations are not met the employees became apathetic and indifferent towards his or her work, or engage in some other forms of offensive behaviour. Consequently, management may be tempted to force such employee into directing his or her efforts towards the goals of the organization, when force is applied in such a situation, there is the tendency that those highlighted problems will be magnified. And as such they are here recommending that the organization should endeavour to provide their members with opportunities for satisfying many different types of needs. This is turn would help in promoting cooperation and obedience to rules and regulations.
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