Motivation and Employee Performance in the Manufacturing Industries in Nigeria
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
- To determine the relationship between employee performance and motivation.
- To ascertain whether employee’s unwillingness to embrace challenges is as a result of late salary payment.
- To determine the relationship between employee and the employers.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
Professional overview about motivation and employee performance. Abdulahi and Leoine (1979:67), state that a review of the literature can serve important purposes. The review of literature can indicate whether it feasible to do the planned research by revealing difficulties encountered by previous researchers.
Again, related literature can serve as the connecting link between the findings and previous research that has been done in the problem areas and the results of the proposed study. Review of literature helps to place the researcher in a better position to interpret the significance of study.
Motivation is internal energizer capable of directing behviour in a particular direction by Charles Ray and Charles Elsan (1984:202).
Again, in explaining the concept of motivation, Szilagyi and Wallace (1990:199) conclude that certain factors arise or incite a person’s activities. It also concerns how behaviour is started, sustained or stopped. So, motivation is an essential ingredient to effective job management of Nigeria Television Authority Channel 12 Owerri recruit their staffs by seeking and attracting people that are qualified for the vacancies. They also tell the applicants that life will actually be like on the job, that is, they are realistic. The management in NTA Channel 12 Owerri will always establish channels of job availability information like advertising, campus recruiting and job posting.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
This chapter concentrated with the research methodology. It helps to explan the approaches used towards finding solutions to the research questions.
In other words, to test the validity of this research work, the researcher hope that the following will contribute to the findings as expected. The researcher will also analyze the type of research design, methods of data collection, sample size, sample techniques and data analysis techniques used.
RESEARCH DESIGN
This research design deals with the fundamental question of how the study matter will be brought into the scope of the research and how they will be employed int o the research setting to yield the desired data.
The researcher in this study used the descriptive research design in order to simplify and understand the complex issue to problems of motivation and employee performance in the public sector.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION OF DATA
INTRODUCTION
In this study, the researcher distributed a well formulated percentage of questionnaires to the Nigerian Television Authority Channel 12 Owerri. A total of thirty respondents were distributed to departments and responses of returns which represents the questionnaire distributed.
In all these, it shows that the respondents were interested in the study. It also gives meaning to the data and therefore conclusion and recommendation and analysis was made.
DATA ANALYSIS
Out of the questionnaires distributed, thirty were correctly filled. Therefore, the analysis was done based on the questionnaire collected. Although the hypothesis of the study states that there is a strong relationship between Nigerian Television Authority Channel 12 Owerri and their staff. The following research questions were raised with the table that answered the questions.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
In the course of doing this research work, the researcher made the following findings:
- That motivation was a major force in propelling employees to a better work performance in of a specified task. The researcher discovered that promotions, positive performance appraisal and increase in pay were among the motivators in NTA Owerri.
- Also the researcher discovered that a better working conditions and job satisfaction was among the major motivators as some of the employees in NTA were dissatisfied than equipments and working conditions.
CONCLUSION
From the findings from the respondents, I conclude that organization managers should be concerned most with satisfying the need of its employees and knowing these things with which to satisfy every individual worker in the organization.
The findings indicated that employees should be considered as the most important element in the organization because, they help to increase productivity in an organization.
If they are well delegated to duty associated with motivational factors or incentives which will activate the morale of the employee in the organization. It is also assumed that these factors can be achieved towards constant modification of the workers in the organization for better productivity. I conclude that, immediately an organization puts the interest of their workers in the organization into consideration; there is every tendency that such organization will achieve their set out objectives or aims.
RECOMMENDATION
The responses from the questionnaire have proved that people who make up an organization are individual with different motives, thirst and drives.
Therefore, they must be accorded and treated accordingly to utilize their potentials efficiently n the organization. To ensure that motivation and employee performance are not hampered, the bases of this research advanced the following suggestions:
- Provision of yardstick for appraising efforts.
- Putting employees on top.
- Solving problems that could affect the growth of the organization.
- Provision of adequate facilities.
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