ATTITUDE TO WORK IN THE CIVIL SERVICE (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Workers play an important in the realization of the goals of an organization. Before a worker can be have positively or negatively towards improving his/ her attitude to work there must be some from of stimuli
The stimuli in this context are those motivating factors available to a worker in his place of work. These human element depending on it’s application will make a worker respond either positively or negatively. (ISIWU 1989). The attitude into follows these responses, therefore, as a result of a stimulus is the very one that make a lot of difference in the civil service. All these can be tied to effective management techniques because it is the manager, who plans, direct organize his work force in order to make them productive. Scholar like Fredrik took interest in management techniques as a way of improving human activity and came up with the idea of scientific management. His major ideas which will help stimulate workers improve efficiency could be summed up as fellows:-workers should be given responsibility with authority, selection of worker should be on merit, and this will increase the productivity, people should do work according to rules and regulations.
Over the years, management techniques are lacking and this lead to the lack of interest and poor performance of workers with particular reference to that of Oredo Local Government Council Civil Servants. Many other scholars like Robert Owen, Adams Smith, Kad Marx and Fredrik Engel came up with a lot of ideas during the period of industrial revolution of workers on the way of improving workers attitude
The civil service is the main instrument through which the government carries out its business. The civil servants are exposed to render loyal service and professional advice to tenure. (MUMUJA 1992). The role of the civil service has been influence by the social economic and political dynamics in Nigeria. Before independence the civil service are concerned with the maintenance of law and order and fostering social and economic development, but after independence, the Nigeria civil service was faced with the issues of adjustment and consolidation. Also during this period was the change that was going on in the regional administration
It was the military that changed the traditional role of the civil service from what it used to be. After the civil war, the emphasis was shifted to preserving national unity, reconciliation. The oil, boom year witnessed the civil service even facing more challenge in there development of infrastructure and the provision of social service. Today the civil service is not what it used to be; there have been reduced performance of the service over the years due to some factors recognized by Ayida Panels review of the 1995 civil service reform as follows:
