Abstract
This study is on the effect of motivational tools on employee morales in an organization. The total population for the study is 200 staff of GTB and UBA Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. The researcher used questionnaires as the instrument for the data collection. Descriptive Survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 133 respondents made human resource managers, accountants, customer care officers and marketers were used for the study. The data collected were presented in tables and analyzed using simple percentages and frequencies
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
- Background of the study
In motivating employee in an organization, it requires the management to create real and imagined needs for the employee to aspire to. These needs could be increased in wages/salaries. So many experiences have shown that Nigerian workers in both public and private sectors have been frustrated out of their jobs for reasons arising from the dissatisfaction of their job, lack of good training policies and training facilities, absence of adequate incentives etc. As a result, low morale in working behavior comes into play. The keys to the viability, survival and growth of an organization in the public and private sector are the effective acquisition, utilization and maintenance of the organization’s most valued asset human resources. No matter how vast or huge the financial and materials resources may be, somebody who is a human element will have to put them together and make them useful to the accomplishment of goals and objectives. The capacity of an organization to adopt, maintain itself, survive and grow in the face of changing condition depends largely in how effective and efficient the human resource can be managed and utilized. Lots of organizations are confronted with broad range of problems in dealing with the life wire of the organization, which is the human resource, which consists of all individual, irrespective of their roles, status and duties who are engaged in any of the organizations activities and its important, versatile, and valuable assets, it is the only resources that is blessed with the capabilities of thinking, planning, executing and achieving organizational goals. Furthermore, with these central roles played by human resource in an organization, it becomes evidently clear that their motivation should be given a top priority. The expectation of management of every organization is for employees to put in their best to achieve the goals of that said organization. This is the reason why management practitioners and most people tend to pay attention to motivation to boost employee morale at work.
- STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Many contemporary authors have argued that motivation is a concept that cannot be ignored when talking of workers morale. Yet lack of motivation has made a whole lot of organization to collapse or at must run below their target. Motivated employees are needed in our rapidly changing workplace, motivated employee are more productive and help organizations to survive.
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