Motivation, an Engine for Organizational Performance, a case Study of Lagos State University, External System.

Abstract

The research study takes a look at motivation, an engine for organizational performance, a case study of Lagos State University, External System. However, the study make use of primary data and questionnaire were distributed to one hundred and fifty resource person (lecturers) in Lagos State University, external system and Spearman's rank Correlation coefficient was adopted as the estimation techniques. More so, the objectives of the study examine whether motivation affects individuals lecturer's performance in Lagos State University External System, and to also examine whether job satisfaction enhances productivity among the lecturer's in Lagos State University, External system. Further more, the result of the study reveals that motivation plays a lot of role in affecting individual lecturers' performance in Lagos State University, external system and at the same time Job satisfaction has not enhances productivity among the lecturer's in Lagos State University, External system, and that many resource person (lecturers) in LASU external system are not happy with the system and the way it is been coordinated, according to them, bad leadership. Therefore, the study recommend and conclude that the lecturers have need for affection, achievement, recognition, and advancement at work and any attempt that makes all these not present will cause job dissatisfaction to the entire resource person (lecturers) in LASU, external system, therefore the director of the programme should endeavor to improve on the welfare of the resource person (lecturers) for better productivity to take place in the system.