Effects of Welfare Scheme on the Motivation of Workers in Anambra State Local Government Service Commission.
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
In the era of Globalization, market economy, hyper-competition and rapid changing environment, the success of an organization depends on the employees’ performance. Employees’ performance is an essential requirement if an organization is to maintain its efforts towards the realization of predesigned goals.
Organizations have to provide various benefits to ensure employees welfare is taken care off. In fact in this age and era it is almost impossible to operate an organisation without offering a basic set of benefits for employees’ welfare.
Organizations should understand that a healthy and stress free worker is a major asset to the organization and should therefore provide welfare services and programmes.
Welfare is concerned with the total wellbeing of employees both at work and at home. Armstrong (2014) states that employee welfare programs rest mainly on the abstract ground of social responsibility on organisations for those who work for them.
Organizations need highly performing employees in order to meet their goals to deliver the products and services they specialize in and hence achieve a competitive advantage. According to Gayle & Brock (2014) Organizations provide welfare facilities to their employees to keep their motivation levels high.
The employee welfare programs can be classified into two categories viz. statutory and non-statutory welfare schemes. The statutory schemes are those schemes that are compulsory to provide by an organization as compliance to the laws governing employee health and safety.
These include provisions provided in industrial acts like Factories Act, Dock Workers Act (safety, health and welfare), and Mines Act. The non-statutory schemes differ from organization to organization and from industry to industry.
The very logic behind providing welfare schemes is to increase a healthy loyal and the productivity of the organization, create efficient, satisfied labour force for the organization promote healthy organizational relations thereby maintaining industrial peace.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
The current Nigeria economic situation is such that cannot allow for any excuses amongst top management of relevant revenue-generating agencies of government parastatals.
In fact, even the non-generating agencies are expected to function maximally as such would help in bringing the nation’s economy around.
Therefore, management is saddled with the task of finding out how best to draw performance and an improved one at that for quality service delivery.
Employee welfare is a dynamic concept as new welfare measures are added to the existing ones along with social changes.
The modern concept of employee welfare entails all those activities of the employers, which are directed towards providing the employees with certain facilities and services in addition to wages and salaries.
Welfare facilities are essential for the health of the organisation since they bear a close connection with the productivities of the labour force.
Employee welfare measures increase the productivity of organization and promote motivation, healthy organizational relations thereby maintaining industrial peace and retain the employees for longer duration.
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