CHAPTER ONE:INTRODUCTION
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY.
In
every organization, large or small, private or public enterprise, human
resources (employees)
are always the pillar to the success of the organization. These human elements
have their individual drives, desires, needs, wishes and similar forces which
they intend to satisfy when they are coming into an organization. Satisfaction
or non-satisfaction of these needs by the organization has an impact on the
behaviour or performance of the employee and eventually on productivity.
The usefulness of
motivation cannot be over emphasized. Every organization depends on motivation
amongst other factors for the attainment of their objectives. Organizational
objectives cannot be fully achieved unless the employees are trained and
motivated to acquire the necessary skills, knowledge, and ability to perform
their jobs effectively and efficiently. With the drive towards technological
advancement in Nigeria, motivating and training of employees are inevitable,
the monetary incentives like bonuses, wages, salary increment etc. are to
motivate the employees thereby making them to put more effort in their work
which help to improve the level of productivity in both private and public
industries.
and O’Donnell (1980, p.334), motivatio to act in a
desired manner. Also Pinder (1984:24) defines motivation as the force
within a person that affects his or her direction,
intensity and persistence of voluntary behaviour.
The major problem of motivation is how
to induce a group of people, each with a distinctive set of needs and a unique
personality to work together towards the achievement of organizational
objectives. The ability to understand why people behave the way they do and the
ability to motivate them to behave in a specified desired manner are two inter
related qualities which are very important for managerial effectiveness.
Luthans (1998:8) posits that motivation
is the process that arouses, energizes, directs and sustains behaviours and
performances. That is, it is the process of stimulating people to action, being
committed towards achieving a desired objective, one way of doing this is to
employ proper motivational technique which makes workers more satisfied with
and committed to their job.
The most concern of employer is to make
the employees to contribute to the attainment of organizational objectives, but
they should know that if the employees are not happy with the management of the
organization; there will be a very low rate of production in the organization.
That is why Hekina and Jones (1967)
visualize that employees should be seen and valued
as assets for the allocation of organizational resources. This project will be
based on the review of motivation as a management tool for increasing the
productivity of employees using Emenite Nigeria Plc., Emene as a case study.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE STUDY
Organizations
do not lay emphasis on the importance of understanding and
applying various proper motivational techniques in
designing and creating an environment for performance leading to productivity.
This research work problem is to find
out how motivation can bring about increase in productivity in an organization
on the basis of information which i have found out, I will make recommendations
for the problems.
Many organizations are apparently
unaware of the benefits derived from motivating their employees, this makes
their performance to be very poor and the problems here are:
Organizations see
motivating their workforce as something not too important because they do not
value the employees in their organization;
Ø
Organizations lack an enabling
environment for work performance, poor incentives, tribalism and sentiments,
bureaucracy and quota systems helps in
contributing to poor performance in an organization.
Ø
Organizations see motivating their
employees as a waste of time and money and even if some are trained, some of
them are adamant to change.
1.3.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY.
The general objective
of this study is to review motivation as a management tool for increasing the
productivity of employees in Emenite Limited. Meanwhile, other objectives of
this study will include:
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