THE IMPACT OF MANAGEMENT INCENTIVE POLICIES ON WORKER’S PRODUCTIVITY (A CASE STUDY OF DANGOTE CEMENT FACTORY, OBAJANA, KOGI STATE)
ABSTRACT
The impact of management incentive policies on worker’s productivity. The place of good management incentive policies on employee’s productivity cannot be over emphasized. Most incentives plans are designed to help increase efficiency in the organization. However, obtaining employee’s acceptance of incentive system may be difficult at the onset. This research has been necessitated by the need of raise awareness of practitioners and the employers of labour to the need of high productivity through good incentive policies. The researcher’s search light was beamed on several theories of incentive usefulness and purpose of a good incentive policy in an organization. Problems associated with individual incentive plans were also enumerated with a view to providing solutions to those problems in form of recommendations, which is that the management should concentrate more on individual incentive scheme whereby reward will be based on individual effort. Organizations have divergent policies on incentive, but towards what extent has these packages improve productivity? This research work is significantly useful as a reference point for subsequent researches and more useful to every organization that that desires to achieve high productivity. The descriptive research was adopted, while both primary and secondary source of data were explored. The population of the study was 187 and the sample size is 127 by using Yaro Yamane method. The study revealed that good incentive polices motivate workers, motivated workers are happy workers and happy workers are productive workers. The study also revealed that a monetary incentive is essential in getting workers to perform better. However, money is not everything for other factors are equally important.
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