ANALYSIS OF FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR LOW PRODUCTIVITY

ABSTRACT

This works attempts to look into factors responsible for low productivity among employees in the Nigeria Civil Service (Agricultural sector). Nigeria which has often been described as the giant of Africa has a lot of minerals and material resources. However, the level of work ethic is either low because of poor attitude to work among Nigerians. In collaboration with this view, Nigeria’s former president Shehu Shagari (1982) described Nigerian’s attitude to work as one of the worst in the world. The work covers a review of authorities and pendants as Ogunna (1995) who lamented that Nigeria has a lot of mineral and material resources but the level of work by the workers is low because of poor attitude to work among the citizenry and many other authorities. The research methodology adopted includes consultation of book journals, use of seminar papers and government publications, visit to the ministry involved and administration of questionnaires data generally was analyzed using the simple percent method. The result showed that giving of incentives and proper training to workers in the service can go a long way to motivate and improve productivity The conclusion is that there is need for the government to reward the workers for good which can only improve productivity. The study recommends that workers should cultivate the habit of hard-work and labour managers should also give nonfinancial incentives to workers for work well done and many more.