Staff Motivation And Productivity In Emenite Limited, Emene, Enugu State (2008-2012).

ABSTRACT

The study of motivation in an organization enhances the degree to which it

results in productivity. Since it plays a vital role in the life of any organization

and remained a central issue in any organization (private and public sector)

committed to the attainment of specific set goals and objectives. This is why

organizations spend huge amount of financial resources in their effort to

identify conditions that leads to employee motivation and also make available

to employee such motivational conditions. People choose to work, not just for

working sake, but are always propelled by the desire to achieve their individual

objectives by the way of helping organization accomplish their own objectives.

If at any point a worker perceives his work as one leading to the satisfaction of

his needs, the more motivated such an employee becomes and vice versa. The

purpose of this study is to examine the effect of motivation on workers

productivity in an organization with particular reference to Nigeria private

sector and the issues involved in the designing and promoting of such programs.

Emenite limited company was used as the study area. The thesis incorporated a

study that was conducted on 120 employees from the four departments of the

organization to find out the workers attitude towards motivational incentives

and the types of problem commonly being experienced by the employees in the

organization. In this thesis, hypotheses were formulated and tested. The

literature review comprised of relevant paper, seminar papers, published and

unpublished texts written by known authors which help to strengthen the issues

raised. Questionnaire were developed and administered. In addition, the use of

survey techniques, refined observation and in- depth interview on intimacy,

consideration and thrust, all formed the methodology employed. The study is

conducted in five chapters, chapter one deals with the introduction, statement of

the problem, objective the study, significance of the study, scope and limitation.

Chapter two dwells on literature review, research design, method of data

collection. Hypotheses, theoretical framework and operationalization of key

concepts. In chapter three brief history of the study area was highlighted

including the structure and management of the organization. Chapter four

handles data presentation and analysis, findings and discussion, testing of

hypotheses raised. Finally, chapter five presents the summary, Recommendations and conclusion of the study.