1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
The need for welfare scheme as a motivation tool on workers in public service cannot be over emphasized. Public as well as private enterprise tends to increase productivity in their work place and welfare scheme and packages have great influence as it can be used as one of the measure to motivate workers in public services.
Government provides services or facilities to their workers not only on humaniterain bases but also because of pecuniary gain derivable from such services or facilities. However, it is good for government to be genuinely interested in the welfare of his workers anxiety, worries, family and financial crisis suffered by workers do adversely affect their, performance.
It is therefore in government interest to assist in removing or reducing these problems and making the workers comfortable while at work. Welfare scheme to be provided by government must as much possible reflect his good intension toward his workers rather than workers perceiving such services as a right or entitlement.
1.2 Statement of Problems
In early days or cooperation activities, government sees no need for welfare scheme. They do not tend to motivate their workers as there was no measurement no workers performance and motivation was far from serving as a means of increasing productivity. Hence workers were responsible for the provision of all welfare they needed at this stage workers were not well remunerated and their welfare was not at the organization diary. Government went home with all the profits pretending to offer essential services while the workers bear agony incase of loose and work condition at the place.
The emerges of theories ushers in series of common research which developed school of thought thereby giving management and trade union sense of becoming on the affect of welfare scheme on motivation of workers performance, but the case remains the provision and its implementation by the government and its administrators, partly because on place where they are introduced, there are problems associated with its impact on the motivaton of workers while in many other places ingnored or worst still does not exist because they are not seen as a measure to increase productivity.
Problems associated with the impact of welfare scheme on the motivation of workers have led to the failure of the administration of implementation.
1.3 Objective of Study
In pursuance of this research work, the following are the objectives of the study.
- To identify welfare scheme enjoyed by workers of orient television owerri.
- To determine the extent to which the welfare scheme motivate workers in orient television owerri.
- To examine / identify the problems associated with the implementation of welfare scheme in orient television owerri.
- To examine the relationship between welfare and workers performance.
- To find out the effect of finance to motivate as a welfare scheme.
1.4 Research Questions
The following are the research question
- To what extent does welfare scheme motivate the workers of orient television owerri?
- What are the welfare scheme employed by the workers of orient television owerri?
- Are there problems associated with implementation of welfare scheme in orient television owerri?
- Is there any relationship between welfare scheme workers performance?
1.5 Significance of the Study
The administrators government agencies machineries and academic have not helped on laying solid for foundation for the formation of adequate measures in implementation of welfare scheme as its measure tend not to motivate workers.
However, these studies have failed to established or addressed the problems associated with the provision as well as implementation welfare scheme towards motivations, all these tends to have created problems of choice in administration of different strategies in achieving the desired goals. The study is therefore set to use empirical data on Nigeria to model as well as predict possible measures for easy implementation. This study will be significant in this ways.
The findings will be of use in extending the body of existing knowledge. This would be of great benefit to different individuals, group, policy makes researchers, government and its agencies.
Moreso, future or further researcher would in no small measure find this as useful spring board from which they can lunch themselves into the field of more investigation.
1.6 Scope of the Study
The coverage area of this study in Nigeria orient television owerri in which the impact of welfare scheme on the motivation of worker is focused.
The choice of orient television owerri is necessitated by the fact that it may not be very easy prevailing economic conditions of study all firms in the industry.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
Orient television is a premier and renewed company in owerri and is suitable for carryout this research work. A lot of constraints exerted by such factors like time, finance, lack of materials and the attitude of the respondents.
1.8 Definition of Terms
Motivation
Is the willingness to extent high level of effort towards organizational goal conditioned by the effort, ability to satisfy some individual need.
Pecuniary
Relating to or connected with moneyThis project work deals on “The impact of welfare scheme on the motivation of workers in public services” using orient television Owerri as a case study.
Production
The rate at which a worker, a company or country produces goods and the amount produced, compared with how much time, work and money is needed to produce them.
Remunerated
An amount of money that is paid to somebody for work they have done.
Premier
Most important famous or successful.
