The Contemporary Motivation Issues And Acceleration Of Employees Productivity In Nigerian Money Deposit Banks Between The Periods Of 2010 To 2019

The study investigated the contemporary motivation issues and acceleration of employees’ productivity in Nigerian money deposit banks. The study significantly considered the impact of current trends of motivation, motivated employees, extrinsic motivation, and intrinsic motivation on employees’ productivity in money deposit banks of Nigeria. The study also premised at providing the most abiding remedies on how employees can be inspired. Eighteen branches of money deposit banks were purposively sampled in Kebbi state. Mayo’s Behavioral and Maslow’s Needs theories as well as ten other theories drawn from Productivity and Performance fields of study were adopted.
Case study research design and mixed-method research approach were adopted. Structured questionnaire as well as open-ended interview that underwent content, face, construct, and pilot tests concurrent validity was used to collect data from 172 randomly sampled employees and managers of money deposit banks. Analysis of variance (ANOVA), regression analysis, fisher-exact test, factor analysis and coefficient analysis were used to test the significant relationship between the independent and dependent variables. Thematic analysis was also used to analyse the data obtained from the interview.
The findings rejected the null hypotheses as they showed that current trends of motivation has a significant impact on occupational productivity, motivated employees have significant relationship with occupational capacity, extrinsic motivation have significant effect on work performance, intrinsic desires have a significant influence on professional ability and there are most abiding remedies of how employees can be inspired all with the p-value of 0.000<0.05.
The study concluded that to improve employees’ productivity in money deposit banks of Nigeria, the role of motivation and consideration of certain issues should be made important. The study recommended that motivating employees should involve an astute mixture of monetary incentive, non- monetary entitlements, physical and emotional situations which are conducive for high level of productivity.