1.0. Introduction
1.1. Background of the Study
With the emergence of modern states and the development of the organs of government the legislature, judiciary and executive arm of the state. The term civil service is used to describe those public servants who are direct employee of the federal and state government. Other than the public, the arm force personnel, the judicial personnel and the teachers. Its usage excludes also employees of statutory cooperation and board (Nwosu 1977).
According to Adebeyo (1980) the civil servants comprises all servants of the state other that those holding political appointments, who are employed in a civil capacity and whose remuneration are paid out of money voted by the legislature. Adamolekum (1983) sees the regard civil service as the body of permanent officials appointed to assist the political executives in formulating and implementing government policies.
The historical background of the civil service dated back to the end of the colonial masters and post independence period.
After the second world war there were about 14 British administration on the cecitation to Nigeria supported staff and one European stenotern the headquarter of the most technical departments was in Ebutometa that of the veterinary service was vow while that agricultural and forestry was in Ibadan field administration was coordination from two creative. Kaduna for the south. In 1939 Southern Nigeria was spitted into two regions Eastern and Western region respectively.
The Richard constitution in 1946 divided the Northern and Eastern regions. The Mcpheson constitution 1951 introduced the apartments of ministers for the regions and at the centre, there was also the suggest, the independence of the civil service between the politicians in office and the authorities of the central government. During the Lord Lugard era, the duties of all administrative offices were just that of maintaining law and order in the district only at the end of world was 2 (two) that effort were made to achieve some social and economic benefit for Nigeria.
It was at that time that such office like the department of marketing and export were established in the western Nigeria. Civil servants were told that policy making was the executive function of the legislature. So the civil servants were to do whatever the legislative wanted them to do on the eastern state, civil service were to give sound advice to the political leaders control the traditional aspects of the government activities and were also to be efficient executive who could manage and treat all the complex operations of modern states.
In the northern Nigeria the duties of administration of local government and finally to facilitate the emergence of an intelligent and responsible public opinion. The system of administration that emerged on independence was British in character, it was used as a medium of communication on the conduct of followed by another six years of oil boom which brought about extreme materialism.
These gave use of great indiscipline; corruption and a total contemplation of order within the whole society including the civil service and its role before and after independence, it is necessary at this state to defined the “productivity” which is the main objective of this research.
Productivity has been defined as the volume of goods and services produced per workers within some specified unit of the year month workday and hour for some years now there has been consistent public notary about continued decline of productivity in the civil service.
1.2 Statement of the Problems
There has been consistent low productivity in the civil service since Nigeria become independence. This study is set out to asset the knowledge to job motivation and used of official work hours on the civil service in order to promote productivity. The problem are not a shortage of time but to use the time available.
The study will help administrators to discover better ways to as their time in order to produce more satisfying result in productivity. Time is different from other resources in other sense most resources must be purchased, this means they cast the move you value them, time is free many admonition don't value it very much, this present another relative problem.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The purpose of the present study is too large extent explained by the titles promoting productivity in them. Civil service to be more specific the purpose are as follows.
- To identify the things that makes civil servants to performed below standard.
- and to determine the measure to be taken in order to arrest the situation.
- To find out the main cause of productivity decline in the civil service commission.
1.4 Research Question
The research question of the present study are of prompting productivity in civil service commission specially they are:
- What are the thing that makes civil servants to perform below standard?
- What are the main causes of productivity decline the civil service commission?
- What is the measure to be taken to arrest the situation?
1.5 Significance of the Study
The main significance of this study is to promote productivity in the civil service mainly in the Imo State civil service commission.
If the productivity of Imo state civil service commission is promoting the following people will benefit from it.
- The civil servants of the commission they will benefit in the sense that workers on the commission will be young good pay and allowances.
- The government will also benefit from the promotion of this case, government will no more be faced with the problems of state and complained that comes from the civil servants of the commission.
1.6 Scope of the Study
The scope of study focus on the strategies of productivity in civil service commission and the objectives of Imo state. Civil service commission in other to carry out research of this nature one would always require adequate provision of finance accurate limitation and time limit.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
At the time questionnaire were distributed to some members of staff of Imo state civil service commission. Some felt reluctant to receive them on the pretence that they were too busy with office work some workers even complained that because they were every question.
1.8 Definition of Terms
There are some terms in this research work which need to be defined in other to alert the scholar of the meanings.
Productivity:
It can be defined as the volume of goods and services produced by a worker within some specified unit of the year, month, weeks, days or hours.
Civil Service:
It can be defined as the body of permanent officials appointed to assist the political executive in formulating and implementing government policies.
Strategies:
Is the process of planning something of putting a plan into operations on a skillful way.
Promotion:
It is the ability that encourage people to believe in the values or important of something or that helps something to succeed. It is also the benefit enjoys by the same set of group of individual.
