MOTIVATING EMPLOYEE THROUGH NON-MONETARY INCENTIVE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
As a matter of fact, all
activities performed within
an organization are goal directed and therefore the creation of an organization also has a purpose. The
initiators/founders of the organization have their own objectives in mind and intend to use the organization as an
instrument to achieve those objectives. So also, every individual have goals for joining an organization. To achieve
these goals, will be quite difficult without knowing what motivate people to work. Any planning and organizing that will
not or does not include adequate compensation for workers might lead to disinterest, frustration and boredom at
work, this result to low productivity, high labour turnover, absenteeism, poor labour management relationship and
counterproductive behavior can often have their roots dues to poor motivation of employee. The researcher is
motivated to work on this topic because whenever a question is being asked on what motivated people or worker to
put in their best to enhance effective output of an organization, the first thing that come into one’s mind will be through
monetary measure. And since it has been the believe of maturity of people that it’s only through monetary terms that workers in an organization can be motivated, the researcher finds it interesting to find out other means through which
workers can be motivated i.e. non-monetary means and which make workers to put in their best, willingness to work
so as to enhance effective and efficient output of the organization in which they belong. Researching on how to
motivate workers in an organization through non-monetary means is also interesting in the sense that the mentality of
people will totally be changed from only the motivation through monetary means which usually leads to dubious act
such as cheating, stealing, embezzlement, to maintain just a few that occurs in our organization today, with the
intention of pleasing the worker so as to put in their best to the growth and achievement of the organization’s goals.
The researcher believe that at the end of this work, a prefer solution will be found which will help the top
management of an organization to motivate their worker through a non-monetary means of motivation, because the
money set aside for the motivation of the workers could equally be invested into the organization for growth and diversification.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
There has been a controversy among management scientist as to whether motivation has any significant relationship
with workers performance. Therefore, there is a need for a research into the problems of motivation in respect to
employee performance and some of these problems are; i. The causes of employees low performance in an
organization.
ii. What motivate one person may not be a motivator to another person.
iii. An effort to provide a motivate not related to need would have zero result. For instance where a person wants a
promotion and he is not promoted, it shows that his need has been frustrated.
iv. An individual’s motives and needs are both complex and conflicting.
MOTIVATING EMPLOYEE THROUGH NON-MONETARY INCENTIVE