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 The literature review comprised of relevant paper, seminar papers, published and unpublished texts written by known authors which help to strengthen the issues raised.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.
