WAGES AND SALARY ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA CIVIL SERVICE PROBLEMS AND PROSPECT

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1      Background of the study

The In a public sector organization, individuals are employed to carryout various activities to achieve the organization stated goals and objective. These individuals are the civil servants or bureaucrats who work in the civil servants is the life wire of the state machinery and an essential factors for initial development also he further stated that civil servants is a large scale organization of per market government paid official who are reunited in a civil capacity by the civil service commission, executive authority of government, and whose activities are guided by certain rules of procedure and operation in a systematically  interrelated pattern, to achieve the complex objectives of its government.These government officials who are reunited  in the civil service have at their disposal knowledge skills, attitude, experiences and qualification in order to meet with the goals of the government. The government/employer on the other hand have at its disposal to pay to attract the employee/civil servants to work for the government organization and become her member. These pay is the wages and salary that are been paid to the civil servants.The primary purpose of wages and salary   to the civil servants is to motivate her in order to provide high performance for the service and organizational efficiency and increased in productivity. The development of wages and salary assumes the availability of accurate jobs description, are use in two activities, job evaluation and wages and salary surveys. These are designed to ensure that the pay system is both internally equitable and externally competitive. Wages and salary play role to the civil servants, in that it serves as a way of acquiring the necessities, luxuries and needs of the civil servant, also it makes employee feel that his efforts have been recognize and may derived a sense of achievement from the job.More so, on effective wages and salary policy provides guidelines for compensating its employees. These  policy can address some issues which can aid in increasing their civil servant efficiency and effectiveness.

1.2.   STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

          Civil servants are noted for their inefficiency and hence most government parastatals are considered as dead woods. The problem is how can employee performance, behaviour be on-sit syndrome engaging in private business during official hour be cured enhancing their enumeration. The civil servants are also faced with the problems of no uniformity of salary and wages in the state, differences in salary structure of civil servants among the various levels of government.

Furthermore, do wages and salary boost civil servants performance be behaviour when paid. All these that bedevil the civil services gives the researcher a source of concern and will properly be addressed, one would be able to stand firmly on the state of affairs of the civil service in Imo State.

1.3    OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

Wages and salary administration is a major and often  controversial issues in civil service. Indeed, success in labour compensation management has become an acid test for managerial efficiency, salary and wages of civil servants has impact on the economic, health and stability of both the civil service and the civil bureaucrat. The researcher thus, seek to examine and analyses the term “wages and salary” administration in Imo State civil servants with a view to proving that effective wages and salary administration could: