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INTRODUCTION According to encyclopedia of profess management (1993:678) it is highly desirable that performance statement and standard of personnel function against which current performance can be measured. They are however, subjected to questions of validity and relevance. This criteria terms from the fact that many personnel (employees) activities measures are influenced by uncontrollable factors including the unpredictability of pe […]
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1.0 INTRODUCTION One of the basic assumptions of management practice is that workers can be motivated to high productivity by satisfying their needs. This assumption presupposes that every worker has some internal urges which propel him in specific direction towards self-fulfillment and also towards realization of his centre life’s ambition. According to anikpo (1984) the direction of those urges or need differs from one workers to ano […]
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A lot of employees think that their secretaries are not producing as much as they should. That they are not working up to maximum capacity where as there is room for improvement in their job performance. In order for any organization to achieve its basic objectives, it must lay strong emphasis on the way it observes the environmental factors that affect their organizations as a whole and that of the secretary in particular. Efficient p […]
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According to N. C. Abah, motivation is the mind to do a thing because that thing has meaning to the person doing it. (N. C. Abah 1997: 115)Also Emma E. O. Chukwuemeka said that for an individual to be motivated, he must believe that an act on his part must be followed by a given outcome. (Chukwuemeka 1998: 171). Motivation has been defined in terms of how behaviour get started and how it is sustained, is directed, stopped and how it is […]
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An organization whose workers attitude to work is negative or contrary to the company goals and objectives is bound to hero less competitive advantages over competitors. Employees are the bedrock of every organization so even when an organization injects new technology into its system in a bid to enhance workers welfare, positive result will not be achieved. Recently, the Nigeria attitude to work has deteriorated and thus the level of […]
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As regards to this topic, TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT (TQM) it goes on reviewing the better ways of improving productivity, product quality, and deliver services. Organizations that adopt the concept of total quality management as culture in the direction of altering the behaviour of managers and employees have become low cost, high quality and high productive in the supply of goods and services in order to honour and support the contribu […]
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Branch (1975;12) was of the view that productivity means the continuing improvement of the firm management performance in the use of resources and though the operations it is conducted. However the purpose of this work highlights those factors responsible for low productivity among Nigerian workers. The research tends to focus on those means that will be applied to get workers committed to tier work using effective national tool to enh […]