Effect Of Employee Motivation On Organizational Productivity
[A Study of May & Baker Plc, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria]

1.10 1.10 Schematic Model of the Study

Source: Adopted from Estes & Polnick (2012)

Figure 1: Schematic Model of the Study

The above diagram represents the schematic model of the study illustrating both the independent and dependent variables used in the study; where H represents the various hypotheses tested in the course of this study.

1.11 Definition of Terms

Motivation: refers to what stimulates and guides human behaviors and how these behaviors are sustained to attain a specific goal.

Employees: Employees are people who are hired working under contract in an organization, they are referred to as the workforce of an organization.

Productivity: A summary measure of the quantity and quality of work performance, with resource deployment taken into account. It can be measured at individual, group or organizational levels.

Employee Productivity: is the rate at which employees effectively and efficiently discharge their duties.

Organizational Productivity: A measure of how efficiently and effectively managers use resources to achieve organizational goals.

Effectiveness: refers to a measure of how well workers productivity levels meet set goals and objectives of the organization.

Employee Effectiveness: is a qualitative characteristic that indicates the extent to which job related issues are addressed and the magnitude at which predetermined goals and objectives are achieved by an employee.

Efficiency: can be derived from the relationship between inputs and outputs, and refers principally to the degree at which outputs are realized while minimizing costs associated with production.

Employee Efficiency: refers to the ability of an employee to do what is actually produced or performed with the same consumption of resources