Effect Of Employees Attitude To Work On Productivity

INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
It is now a common phenomenon in many Nigeria organizations to see some workers sleeping on their tables in the office of indulging in gossips in an outside their office when there are cheap of works in the office left on done.
There is a common saying among workers that “governments work is not anybody work”. This attitude to work of most Nigeria works is common in most of the federal government and it is very bad.
Establishment such as Nigeria telecommunications, Nigeria Air Port Authority, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) which will form the basis for the research work. The commitment of Nigeria workers to their work has drastically declined in the recent years compared to their attitude to work years ago. This time people refused to work for their pay, instead they work for their slowly so as not to finish this work on time in an effort to do over time and receive more pay. Even when they work it is always done with less concern, without minding about the quality of their output and the profitability of the business concerned, some of these workers go as far as collecting wages and salaries from companies where they did not work which means reaping where one did not sown.
This situation is what is been referred as “ghost worker” this attitude of workers is such that they have set up a cooperation objectives the workers go as far as concerning and discounting people matter illegally in an attempt to collect money from the affected consumers unto their own pocket rather than the firms. Some workers settle company’s equipment individual in an attempt to make more money. Some of them issues forge electricity bills to their clients so as to collect the money when payment is made. Also, efforts would be made to find remedy to this attitude of workers to their individual work.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
It is true that a satisfactory find output of work is as a result of the quality and quantity of work input by the staff will undoubtedly produce a bad work. The attitude of Nigerians to their work has gone a long way in affecting the quality of their work. One may therefore be asked what reason could be responsible for this poor attitude to work.
This project is designed to give answer to this question and consequently after explanation give facts related to the attitude to work of Nigerians it should find answers to what it meant by:
• People structure, technology and work environment as factors of organizational behavior.
• Organizational theory human relations and behavior.
• Perception and personality attitude motivation and leadership as they affected organizational productivity.
• Determination of what make an employee perform.

1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the research Nigeria works attitude to work and its effect on productivity are:
• To uncover the reasons for the negative attitude to work of Nigeria workers.
• Is to obtain those factors that determine how people behave or will behave under conditions.
• To reveal those factors that prevents him in doing his best.
• To study is to unveil those workers behavior that affects productivity in any establishments mostly in government organization.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
• What are the reasons behind positive and negative attitude to work?
• Why do people work?
• What efforts does attitude to work on productivity?
• Does motivation and leadership have anything to do with attitude?

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
• One major importance of this project is to define and analyze the concept of attitude and its effects on the organization as a whole.
• It also aims at obtaining those factors underlying behaviours, factors that determine how people behave under certain conditions. And to reveal those factors that prevent him from doing his best.
• Another importance of this study is to unveil those workers behavior that affects productivity in any organization especially government establishments.
• This study would be most advantageous to the heads of organizations and employees in general.
• The study is beneficial for the practical fulfillment of the award of National Diploma (ND) in Business Administration and Management.

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY
For the purpose of this research work, the study will be limited to appraising the attitude to work of the Nigeria workers with particular reference of the (Enugu Electricity Distribution Company).
The study will be limited to uncovering the reasons for negative attitude in the corporation the importance of motivation and leadership towards attitude. It also help employees to select and place workers will be appraised as well as finding solution to these negative attitude and way of increasing productivity at the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC).

1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Motivation: According to Charles Ray and Charles Elson (1984) see motivation as an interval energizes capable of directing behavior in a particular reactions.
Productivity: In economics, it is a term used to describe how well or how efficient any economy’s resources are used in the process of production. The extents to which a given economy reached its full potential and the extent to which is expand that potential depend in part on this productivity.
Attitude: The way that you think and feel about something somebody, the way that you behave towards somebody or something that shows how you think and feel.
Employee: A person who is paid to work for somebody.
Ghost Workers: It is a worker who did not perform any duty but collect wages and salaries from company whose he/she belongs to.

1.8 BRIEF HISTORY OF THE STUDY (EEDC)
Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) formerly the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) was organization governing the use of electricity in Nigeria and it is owned, run and managed by the federal government of Nigeria. Presently, the government has divided the current EEDC distribution sector into separate companies or entities that will be called local Electric Distribution Companies (LDC) among the regions. As of April 2014, there are eleven distribution companies.
Abuja Distribution Company
Benin Distribution Company
Eko Distribution Company
Enugu Distribution Company
Ibadan Distribution Company
Ikeja Distribution Company
Jos Distribution Company
Kaduna Distribution Company
Kano Distribution Company
Port Harcourt Distribution Company
Yola Distribution Company