STRATEGIES OF PROMOTING PRODUCTION IN CIVIL SERVICE (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION)

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STRATEGIES OF PROMOTING PRODUCTION IN CIVIL SERVICE (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION)

 

ABSTRACT

This study is a research of the Enugu State civil service commission the purpose of the study includes:

1                    to find out whether civil servants actually preferring below standard.

2                    To find out whether productivity is rely declining in the civil service.

3                    To find out what the cause are in the civil service.

4                    To find out the measures to be taken in order to arrest the situation.

While carrying out the research, the data collection method adopted was the questionnaires, the statistical tool used was chi – square. A total of one hundred questionnaires were distributed out of which twenty was returned. The finding from the hypothesis and research questions show that

1                    Adequate knowledge of job requirement recruitment of motivation and the use of official working hours in the civil service.

2                    The importance of incentives and motivation to increasing efficiency in the civil service.

In the end, the research made recommendations, some of then include

1                    Management should improve the working conditions for the staff so that the organization will be achieved and without good working condition the staff will not be comfortable to work thereby reducing the effectiveness of their work.

2                    They should try and have a communication link between them because them because communication is one of the tool that leads to effective management and employs skilled people murder to have an efficient output and to achieve their objectives.

3                    Management should also motivate their worker by praying them their salaries when due.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1              BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

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

After the Second World War there were about 14 British Administration in the secretarial, 70 Nigerian support staff and one European stenographer.

The headquarter of most technical department which was in Ebutemetta. The headquarter of the  nines was in does, that of  the veterinary service was in vow while that of agriculture and  forestry  was in    Ibadan field administration was co-ordinated from  two centre, kaduna for  north and  Lagos  later Enugu  of the South.

In 1939, southern Nigeria was split into two regions estern and western region respectively. The Rechard constitution in 194 further divided the country into three regions namely, the Northern western and Eastern regions. The McPherson constitution of 1951, introduced the appointment of  ministers for the regions and at  the  centre. At this of the civil service. There were also the struggle of independence of the civil service between the politician in office and the authorities of the central government. During the Lord Lugard era, the duties of all administrative officer  were  just  that of maintaining law and order in the distrait, placed under, their immediate  administrative control. It  was only at the end of wood war 11 that efforts were made to achieve some social and economics benefit for  Nigerians. It was at the that time that such offices  like the department of marketing and export were established. The  repid  Nigerianization of civil  service  and  the executive council  brought about  new conceptions of the role of the  civil  service. For  example,  in the western Nigeria, civil  servants were  told that policy making was the exclusive function of the  legislature.  So, the  civil servants were to do whatever the legislative  wanted  them to do. In  the eastern  state civil servants were to give  sound  advice  to the politic leaders,  control  the traditional  aspects of  government activity  and  were  also to be efficient executives who  could manage and threat all the complex  operations of the modern state.

STRATEGIES OF PROMOTING PRODUCTION IN CIVIL SERVICE (A CASE STUDY OF ENUGU STATE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION)