The Problem of Retirement in Enugu State Civil Service

The Problem of Retirement in Enugu State Civil Service.

ABSTRACT

This is a study on problems of retirement in the Enugu state civil service: a case study of Enugu state universal basic education board. This study is an attempt to help the Enugu state civil service retiring employees to prepare for life after retirement.

The work intends to help the retiring employees to set their priorities right and to easily define their lives after retirement. In order to avoid the high degree of penury some retirees live in after several years of service.

This study really exposes the importance of retirement guidance and counselling, various issues a retiring employee must address while he/she is still in active service, what the employers should do in order to help the prospective retirees to as a death sentence.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE       –       –       –       –       –       –       –       –       i

APPROVAL       –       –       –       –       –       –       –       ii

DEDICATION – –       –       –       –       –       –       –       iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT – –       –       –       –       –       iv

ABSTRACT –    –       –       –       –       –       –       –       vi

LIST OF TABLE –     –       –       –       –       –       –       vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS –  –       –       –       –       –       viii

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION –      –       –       –       –       –       1

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY        –       –       3

1.2   STATEMENT OF THE STUDY  –       –       –       4

1.3   OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY   –       –       –       5

1.4   SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY      –       –       7

1.5   HYPOTHESIS   –       –       –       –       –       –       8

1.6   SCOPE OF THE STUDY   –       –       –       –       9

1.7   DEFINITION OF TERMS –       –       –       –       9

CHAPTER TWO

2.0   INTRODUCTION      –       –       –       –       –       11

2.1   RETIREMENT –       –       –       –       –       –       12

2.2   TYPES OF RETIREMENT         –       –       –       14

2.3   ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT –    –       –       17

2.4   FLEXIBLE/VOLUNTORY RETIREMENT  –       20

2.5   FORCEFUL RETIEMENT –       –       –       –       23

2.6   REQUIREMENT FOR PROCESSING OF RETIREMENT BENEFITS  –        –       –      24

• RETIREMENT PROBLEM OF EMPLOYEES IN NIGERIA –       –       –        –       27
• SOLUTION TO RETIREMENT PROBLEMS IN NIGERIA –       –       –        –          29
• SUMMARY OF LITERATURE REVIEW –       31

CHAPTER THREE

• RESEARCH METHODOLOGY –       –       33
  • BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE STUDY – –       –       33
  • DESIGN OF THE STUDY – –       –       –       34
  • AREA OF THE STUDY –       –       –       –       34
  • POPULATION OF THE STUDY – –       –       34
  • SAMPLE OF THE STUDY – –       –       –       35
  • INSTRUMENT FOR DATA COLLECTION –       35
  • VALIDATION OF THE INSTRUMENT –       36
  • DISTRIBUTION AND RETRIVAL OF THE INSTRUMENT –       –       –       36
  • METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS – –       –       37

CHAPTER FOUR

• DATA PRESENTATION –       –       –       –       38
  • DATA ANALYSIS –       –       –       –       –       38
  • FINDINGS –       –       –       –       –       –       42

CHAPTER FIVE

• SUMMARY OF FINDINGS –       –       –       44
  • CONCLUSIONS –       –       –       –       –       46
  • RECOMMENDATIONS –       –       –       –       47
  • LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY – –       –       49
  • SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY –       51

REFERENCES         –       –       –       –       –       52

APPENDIX       –       –       –       –       –       –       54

QUESTIONNAIRE    –       –       –       –       –       55

INTRODUCTION

Members of the working class are individuals who are deeply engaged in paid employment mainly in the workplace and organizations not their own.

These places could be in the private or public sectors of the economy. These workers are remunerated on fixed wages or salaries instead of on commission or profit basis.

They open the better part of their active life working for the growth, development and expansion of their organization. For their contributions to the progress for these organizations, they receive virtually nothing in return other than salaries and/or wages.

Salaries and wages are prices paid for their training, qualifications, experiences, risk-taking, productivity and their other x-efficiency contributions to the overall development of their areas of employment as well as other sectors combined.

However, they are not appropriately compensated for their contributions and based on this, they cannot be able to invest in other business ventures that will yield profits to them for the rainy days during the post-retirement period and so, they face a lot of problems.

Retirement is an inevitable fact of life every employee must look forward to the experience, it further confirms that whatever that has a beginning has an end.

But due to unpreparedness and lack of adequate compensation on the part of the employers, there abound problems in the post-retirement period and these made many retiring employees see retirement as the ultimate end of their careers and lives.

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