Employee motivation as a remedy to organisation sustainability among SMEs in Lagos State, Nigeria

Abstract

The challenges of the organisation sustainability appear to be enormous and can overwhelm Small and Medium Enterprises thereby declining their capacities of contributing to the gross domestic product and decrease the rate of unemployment. The failure to demonstrate required employee motivation which in turn affect many SMEs employee performance seem to be the major challenges which SMEs are facing in today’s dynamic business environment. This study, therefore, examines the employee motivation, employee performance and organisation sustainability among SMEs in Lagos state, Nigeria. 100 copies of the questionnaire were distributed, 94 were returned and found usable. Frequency distribution (percentage analysis) was used to analyse data. The findings revealed that employee motivation had significant effect on organisation sustainability. Also, the combined effect of employee motivation and employee performance have positive and significant effect on organisation sustainability. The socio-demography variables (sex, marital status, age, years of experience and educational qualification) have positive relationship with the variables under investigation. The study concludes that employee motivation and employee performance have significant effect on organisation sustainability. Thus, it was recommended that owners/managers of SMEs should be motivating their employees from time to time which can spur the employee performance and result to organisation sustainability among Small and Medium Enterprises in Lagos State, Nigeria.