Morale, Productivity and Sustainable Industrial Development in Nigeria

Ejike C Okoroafor ,E B J Iheriohanma

doi:10.7176/dcs/10-8-03

Abstract

This paper is an analytical discourse on the interface and relationship between morale and productivity and how these have impactful influence on sustainable industrial development in Nigeria. Nigeria is a developing economy that direly needs a strong root and drive for productivity and economic development. This may not be feasible except if the drivers of the economy, particularly the human factor in the production process are not appropriately motivated to energize their morale. This paper that dwelt more on library and secondary sources of materials identified that morale and productivity, though related to each other in many facets, are at the lowest ebbs in Nigeria to essentially drive sustainable industrial development akin to competitive global integrated market economy. It also observed, among others, that certain government truncated policies and poor economic environment within which the human element as factor of production do their work challenge the morale of the operators of the economy. It therefore, recommended, among others, that government policies and work environment should be employees friendly in order to adequately energize them for global practices and to ensure the steady forward movement and progression towards sustainable industrial development in Nigeria. Keywords: Morale, Productivity, Sustainable industrial development, Government policies. DOI: 10.7176/DCS/10-8-03 Publication date: August 31 st 2020

Highlights

This is a discourse on the interface and correlation between the dual phenomena of morale and productivity and how they influence and positively impact on sustainable industrial development in Nigeria
4 Conclusion and Recommendations 4.1Conclusion The three concepts of morale, productivity and industrial development are related in structural context and in real terms
Because high morale in the workplace is critical to organizational productivity and success, it has direct consequences on industrial development in an economy, including Nigeria’s

Summary

Introduction

Downsizing, rightsizing and optimum carrying capacity policies of government and organizations in both public and private sectors of the economy; this threatens job security as it creates environment of uncertainty All these factors are critical issues influencing the level of productivity of work organizations, the public sector because they primarily affect the status of employee morale and efficiency. From the relatively low skill and industrial experience of most Nigerian workers ranging from issues of wages/salary payment, incentives schemes, quality of supervision/management and leadership style, conflicting relationship between government, management and labour, poor motivation packages, reward systems up to poor manpower development/utilization policy and bureaucratic bottlenecks that stifle individual initiatives/ control towards efficiency and productivity, employee morale is adversely affected Each of these factors can be seen to have real and direct impact on the welfare, well-being and emotional stability of employees in one way or the other, and impacts on their morale significantly.

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