A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF JOB INCENTIVES ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES: A CASE STUDY OF UPPER BENUE RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, YOLA.
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF JOB INCENTIVES ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION IN PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES: A CASE STUDY OF UPPER BENUE RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, YOLA.
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1998
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SHEHU, Mannir
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Abstract
This study is aimed at identifying what incentives are available and what impact these
incentives have made on the motivation and performance of employees at Nigeria's Public
Sector agencies with a specific reference to Upper Benue River Basin Development
Authority Yola.
Against this backdrop, a review of relevant literature on the subject was conducted.
We saw the motivation process as arising out of the needs of employees and ending only
when these are satisfied after which other needs surface and the process will commence all
over again. The relation between motivation and job satisfaction was also examined.
We found out during the study that incentive satisfy not only basic order things but
also higher order ones. A very positive relationship was established between incentives
and employee performance. A major boost of performance can be achieved even with an
uncommensurate increase in incentives. A very disturbing finding of this study is that
employees monthly package do not meet their needs. This is the bane of most pay systems
in Nigeria if not all, especially their regard for the reality of living standards as determined
by prices of goods and services. Indeed any employee motivation can never be high if they
are left out in the open by the organisation to look for alternative means of satisfying their
needs.
Having analysed our findings we felt that there is an urgent need for total review of
the entire incentives of the economy. Due to variations in the exigencies of the tasks of
various organisations in the public sector, incentive schemes should be decentralised and
every organisation should be given much freedom to determine what incentives to provide
for its employees in accordance with the nature of the job. We also felt that employees
input should be considered in preparing their incentives.
Finally, for any incentive schemes to remain motivational they should be rewarded
periodically as regular as the changes in the economy. The instability in the economy very
often cancels any positive effect derived from increased incentives. Thus the need to provide
incentives relative to the state of the economy at any particular time.
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A PROJECT SUBMITTED
TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
FACULTY OF ADMINISTRATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT
OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE AWARD OF MASTER
IN
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) DEGREE
1998
Keywords
CRITICAL ANALYSIS,, IMPACT OF JOB INCENTIVES,, EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION,, PUBLIC SECTOR AGENCIES,, CASE STUDY,, UPPER BENUE RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,, YOLA