STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING PRODUCTIVITY IN CIVIL SERVICE (A STUDY OF IMO STATE CIVIL SERVICE)

ABSTRACT

This study is a research of the Imo state civil service commission the purpose of the study is find out whether civil servant are actually performing below standard and also find out whether the productivity is really decline in the civil service. While carrying out the research the duties collection method adopted was the questionnaire the statistical tool used was chi-square. A total of one hundred questionnaire where distributed act of twenty worse. Reference to finding from the hypothesis and research questions show that adequate knowledge of job requirement of motivation and use of official working hard in the civil service.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title page                                                              i

Approval page                                                               ii

Dedication                                                             iii

Acknowledgement                                                  iv

Abstract                                                                v

Table of contents                                                    vi

CHAPTER ONE                                                     

1.0          Introduction                                            1

1. Background of the study                            1
2. Statement of problems                              6
3. Objectives of the study                              8
4. Research questions                                   9
5. Significance of the study                            9
6. Scope of the study                                   10
7. Limitations  of the study                            11
8. Definition of terms                                    11

CHAPTER TWO

• Literature Review                                      14
• Introduction                                             14
• Meaning of civil service                              15
• Function of civil service                              15
• Meaning of productivity                             16
• Productivity decline in the civil service          18
• Causes of productivity decline in civil service 22
• Conditions for promoting productivity in the civil service.             26

References                                               29

CHAPTER THREE

• Research design and methodology                     30
• Introduction                                             30
• Research design                                       31
• Methods of data collection                          32
• Population and Sample size                        34
• Sampling techniques                                 34
• Validity and reliability of measuring instruments  35
• Method of data  analysis                              35

CHAPTER FOUR

• Presentation and analysis of data                 37
• Introduction                                             37
• Presentation of data                                  37
• Analysis of data                                        38
• Interpretation of result                              45

CHAPTER FIVE

• Summary, conclusion and recommendation  47
• Introduction                                             47
• Summary of Findings                                47
• Conclusion                                               49
• Recommendation                                      52

References                                               54

Appendix                                                 56

Questionnaire                                                  57

CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION
• BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The emergence of modern states and the development of the organs of government the legislative, judiciary and executive arm, the civil service involved as the bedrock of the executive arm of the state. The term civil service is used to describe those public servant who are direct employee of the federal and state government. Other than the police, the arm force personnel, the judicial personnel and the teachers. Its usage exclude also employees of statutory cooperation and board (Nwosu 1977). According to Adebayo (1980) the civil servants comprises all servants of the state other than those holding political appointments, who are employed in a civil capacity and whose remuneration are paid out of money voted by the legislature. Adamolekun (1983) sees the regard civil service as the body of permanent officials appointed to assist the political executives in formulating and implementing governmental policies.

However the civil service is an indispensable instrument through which government implement its policies and programmes. The term civil service can also be seen as the totality of the states civilian bureaucracy and major source of expert active as well as instrument for the implementation of government policies.

1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The historical background of the civil service dated back to the end of the colonial masters and post independence period.

After the second world war there were about 14 British administration on the cecitation to Nigeria supported staff and one European stenotern the headquarter of the most technical departments was in Ebutometa that of the veterinary service was vow while that agricultural and forestry was in Ibadan field administration was coordination from two creative. Kaduna for the south. In 1939 Southern Nigeria was splitted into two regions Eastern and Western region respectively. The Richard constitution in 1946 further divided the Northern and eastern regions. The Mcpheson constitution 1951 introduced the apartments of ministers for the regions and at the centre, there was also the suggest, the independence of the civil service between the politicians in office and the authorities of the central government. During the Lord Lugard era, the duties of all administrative offices were just that of maintaining law and order in the district placed under their immediate administrative control. It was only at the end of world war 2 (two) that effort were made to achieve some social and economic benefit for Nigerians. It was at that time that such office like the department of marketing and export were established in the Western Nigerian. Civil servants were told that policy making was the executive function of the legislature. So the civil servant were to do whatever the legislature wanted them to do on the eastern state, civil service were to give sound advice to the political leaders control the traditional aspects of the government activities and were also to be efficient executive who could manage and treat all the complex operations of modern states. In the northern Nigeria the duties of administration of local government and finally to facilitate the emergence of an intelligent and responsible public opinion. The system of administration that emerged on independence was British in character it was used as a medium of communication on the conduct of followed by another six years of oil boom which brought about extreme materialism. These gave use to great indiscipline, corruption and a total contemplation of order within the whole society including the civil services. Having discussed the historical background of the civil service and it’s role before and after independence, it is necessary at this state to define the “productivity” which is the main objective of this research.