Impact of Reward and Compensation Policies on Workers Productivity in Selected Local Government Councils in Cross River State

The major purpose of this research is to assess the impacts of reward and compensation policies (conducive work environment, employee recognition, career development, Wages, bonus packages and allowances) on workers’ productivity in selected local government councils in Cross River state. Three research questions translated into three null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Quantitative and qualitative research designs were adopted using expost facto and survey inferential approaches. The instrument used for data collection in this study is the researcher designed structured questionnaire with modified four-point Likert scale response options. The entire population of the study consists of six thousand, five hundred and seventy-eight (6578) staffs of the Cross River State Local Government services. Using simple random sampling techniques, the register of all the 18 Local Government Areas (LGAs) in Cross River State was used to select 50% LGAs from each of the three senatorial districts in the state. 10 LGAs, were selected. This was followed with the simple random sampling techniques to select the needed sample for the study, here the nominal roll of all the staff of the of each LGA was used to select a purposeful sample of 10% of staff in each selected LGA. At the end, a total of 378 respondents were selected for the study. The researchers with the help of staff of the Head of Local Government Administration (HOLGA) administered the instrument to the respondents, same were returned complete. After coding and scoring, the data generated from the instrument was analyzed using regression analysis. Findings from the study shows that reward proxies like conducive work environment, employee recognition, career development and instruments of compensation like wages, bonus packages and allowances have positive and significant impact on workers’ productivity in local government councils of Cross River state. The study recommended among others that the government should endeavour to develop administrative policies aimed at encouraging public service employees to make them perform as their counterparts in the private sector.

Keywords: Reward and, compensation policies, wages and bonuses, public sector employee, career development and Worker’s productivity.