EFFECT OF MOTIVATION ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WORKERS IN FIVE ORGANIZATIONS IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA

This study examined the “effect of motivation on the performance of workers in five organizations in Kwara State, Nigeria”. How employees are perceived, treated and how they feel about themselves and ultimately their output directly or indirectly has an impact on their performance and development of the organization. The motivated employees under no circumstance will churn out decreased performance. A non-probability design with the purposive sampling technique was employed to select and sample the opinion of 150 workers of five organizations in Kwara State on the issue. Data obtained from the field survey was analyzed. The study revealed that indeed there is a relationship between motivation and performance and aside the known fact that money is the key amongst the motivational factors to employees, it was realized that employees are gradually becoming particular about trust, respect and high expectation, recognition and appreciation and good working environment. The study therefore concluded that great strides be made to motivate all staff to enhance performance. The researcher recommends that management attaches more importance to issues of employee motivation to make the institution survive amongst its competitors.