Imperative of Staff Morale on Productivity of Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria

This study seeks to identify the factors, which affect staff morale in the organization and then make suggestions to ensure continues high morale of staff in the organization. The continues high morale of staff is of great interest and benefit to management who wish to enhance productivity on one hand and quality of working life on the other. Questionnaire is used as the main instrument for the collection of data as well as personal interviews and chats. using the simple random sampling technique. The main analytical tool, used is the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The data collected were collated and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences SPSS . The findings revealed that there is a negative and non significant correlation between staff morale in the organization and job characteristics with correlation coefficient r of 0.04. This indicates that job characteristic has little effect on the morale of the individual staff. There is also a negative and non significant relationship between staff morale and leadership characteristic. On the other hand the findings show a negative but significant relationship between staff morale and labour turnover while there exists a positive and significant relationship between staff morale and job satisfaction. Dr. Odogu Laime Isaac | Ogbogi Gabriel "Imperative of Staff Morale on Productivity of Manufacturing Companies in Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-7 | Issue-6 , December 2023, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd61310.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/other/61310/imperative-of-staff-morale-on-productivity-of-manufacturing-companies-in-nigeria/dr-odogu-laime-isaac