The Impact of Motivation on Employee Productivity in Business Organization.

How to improve the productivity of Nigerian employees has been the topic of many seminars, conferences, and workshops, it is a recognized fact that productivity is a critical factor in economic and social development, for it determines the standard of living for the citizens.

According to Ninachukwu (1988:205), the importance of productivity in any organization can hardly be overemphasized, organization spends millions of naira every year in order to recruit employees who are best suited for their positions.

The question cover could ask is what effect does motivation play on employee productivity.

Productivity is reading the highest level of performance with the least expenditures to the resource. There are many reasons why people are motivated to work.

To the business manager, his major concern is that the employee recognized, accept the common goal of the organization, and work cooperatively toward it. The word motivation originated from the Latin word Moved, which mean to move, motivation are those things that cause energizes, direct or chemicals and sustains human behavior in the work environment

Statement of the problem

?One of the major problems confronting the management of the organization is that motivating workers to perform assigned tasks to meet the predetermined standard. It is not easy to motivate an individual effort depends on the extent to which the organization meets the need of the individual employee to whom it is intended. Most organizations hardly reward in proportion to the quality of job performance for all of their employees. Most managers do not clearly identify the desired level of performance, since it is noted that performance head to satisfaction.