A REVIEW OF MOTIVATION AS A MANAGEMENT TOOL FOR INCREASING WORKERS OUTPUT

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Most organization ignore this dive that motivation is the success factor that make employees think more of organizational interest and less of individual interest.

Countries like Japan, American, Russia, China, and Europe arc known for their technological advancement. The secret behind the success of these developed countries is that they have develop a culture of motivating their labour force. It is worthy to mention that a motivated worker is the most productive worker. The worker who sometimes equals or excels in any standard his boss sets for him.

Herzberge defined motivation in a book jointly written by Williams F. Dawling and Leonard R. Sayle titled “How motivates :) (1971) as: An inner desire, to make as effort.

This definition implies that there is a reagent that acts as a catalyst that gears or gingers up the effort that, make an employee go the extra mile to achieve what he/she would ordinarily not achieve under normal circumstances. The term “Motivation” derives from the Latin word “mover which means “to move”. It is virtually impossible to determine a person’s motivation until that person behaves or literally move.

Robert Krcitner in the fifth edition of his book title “management” (1990) defined motivation as “the psychological process that gives behaviour purpose and direction.

By applying this process, managers attempt to get individuals to willingly pursue organizational objectives. The individual workers behave in a certain manner or towards a certain direction informed by a drive within them and this give them the urge to aspire to satisfy that objective.

The resultant effect the motivation is the attainment of higher productivity by organization, (both private and public).

In essence, motivation is a function of performance, which eventually leads to sustain the success of organization. A working definition (Cole 1995) of motivation is as follows “Motivation is the term used to describe those processes, both instructive and rations by which people seek to satisfy the basic drives, perceived needs and personal goals which trigger human behaviour”

It becomes pertinent for all organization to know that motivation is a success factor in order to achieve higher performance.

1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS

In a work place, individual employees have different aim and aspiration for instance, some worker would prefer to work very hard and yet be satisfied at least for working just to contribute to the job others might have aims of showing appearance in the office or place of work and would not like to be usefully engaged but like to collect their salary as a when due, still some would prefer working for short periods hence their aims would be to reduce the time they spend in the work place to a minimum level since they were not interested with what they are doing.

Therefore, the determination roles of managers goals in an organization and their activities are not always taken for granted. However, due to the co-ordination of human and material resources in an organization in both sectors of their economy are able to establish a company.

Management going to increase the productivity of workers is not just a process by which people (manager) direct, maintains and operates an organization rather it is through systematic co-operative human effort and control measure. It also involves making decision for improved performance and prevention of future short coming if any. We now want to assess how effective managers are and in relation to productive and constructive services that offer to management.

Therefore, the question we want ask is how the manager maintains the higher performance to increase the management tools

The answer to the above question will go a long way in clarifying and explaining what the manager does or is all about and how effective the management decision policy is. The overall purpose is to assist management in achieving the most effective administration of the operations of organization that will attract the incentive of increasing the output of workers in public sector.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The main aim of this research is to specialize and discuss some factors which determine that effectiveness of Enugu state Housing Development Corporation and its general impact to both government and management decision policy in an organization.

This study is carried out to examine the motivation tools employed by the management to improve output of workers in Enugu State Housing Development Corporation (ESHDC).

Motivation is crucial to human being and survival of any enterprise. Management by virtual of their position as decision makers in the corporation, view a massive influence in the operation of the organization and this determine what direction the firm should to.

Therefore, the researcher does not him itself to only investigation into the motivational tools. The management uses to motivate its human resources but how management achieves their motivation is by following the required method of a good motivation.

Some requirements are:

Security is vital element
A good system must be comprehensive in providing for

the satisfaction of all need.

Subordinate must be including working and producing

more.

Provision must be made for financial opportunities particularly those given more freedom.

Another important finding of the study is that when employees are highly motivated they have a high tolerance for dissatisfaction arising from the maintained factors.

1.4 SIGNIFICANT OF THE STUDY

Certainly, the importance of this project i...

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