THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION ON PUBLIC SECTOR PERFORMANCES
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Generally, an employee brings to the business organization a set of wants that issue from his basic needs structure. The satisfaction of there want is to some extents with the control of the make money feed their families well and enjoy better conditions of living. Hence, if working will make them earn more than they normally do, especially when they have skill and energy to do so motivation implies more incentives and inducements, which will make the workers feel more committed to duty because of the hope of the income it will aid to his regular salaries.
On various occasions, highly motivated people have achieved success despite the absence of good plans or effective organizational structure. And of course the more highly motivated the subordinate the less control is necessary to ensuring that work will be executed.
However, motivation is not a substitute for planning organizing and controlling. Motivation implies that more power has with the subordinate who may assist direction in carious ways.
An in-satisfied need creates tension, which stimulates drive within the individual. There drive generate search behaviour to find particular goals that if attained, satisfy the needs and leads to the reduction of tension. motivated employee are in a state of tension. In order to relieve this tension, they engage in activity. The greater the tension the activities to bring about the relief therefore when we see people working hard to some activity by a desire to achieving they are driven by a desire to achieving some goals that they perceive as having value to them.
Motivation and employee performance is a vital tool for achieving organizational goals. In the public sector, it is easy for the manager toad a little incentive to motivating his workers for greater performance and higher productivity.
Against the background, the estimated number of employee in National Nigeria Petroleum corporation (NNPC0 is 200 employed in Aba and 400 employed in Port Harcourt totaling 600 employed.
Therefore, research tends to finding out the problem facing Nigeria economy and employee performance. The research hope to finds out how and to what extent and improved incentives or motivation of employees in the NNPC helped in productivity and the effect of management productivity.
1.1. BACKGROUND OF THE CASE STUDY
The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, otherwise known as NNPC is a commercial Integrated International Oil company engaged in exploring production processing, transportation and marketing of crude oil gas.
