FACTORS THAT ENHANCE PRODUCTIVITY AT WORK

ABSTRACT

The study assesses the factors that enhance productivity at work. A review was made on factors that affect employee productivity and how it affects organization. The descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The independent variable was gender, position, and qualification, while the dependent variable was respondents’ views on the topic. A sample size of 250 respondents was used which was drawn from population of the study. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection of the study. The statistical tools used to analyzed the research questions were the frequency count, simple percentage, mean score, standard deviation and Anova was used to test hypotheses. The responses from the respondents was collected and thereafter converted to mean, standard deviation and tables so as to answer the research questions of the study. The findings revealed that motivation, leadership style, staff skills and performance appraisals are the factors that affect employee productivity at work. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Poor leadership that is uninspiring to the majority of employees. For this reason, the management needs to change its leadership style and adopt a leadership style that inspires the employees to reach higher in their service delivery. This if adopted will raise productivity of the employees. This is because there is a direct relationship between the type of leadership and productivity as established in the analysis. This applies to all other similar organizations (county Government). They need to have inspiring leadership if the level of productivity is to rise. Motivation is a factor of productivity as demonstrated by the findings of this study. However, employees are motivated by different things. Top among them is remuneration and management of every organization needs to recognize this and provide it. Should this happen, level of productivity will rise accordingly. It is recommended that the management should go out of its way to motivate employees for productivity to rise. Again, employee should feel supported by their superiors for productivity to rise. Performance appraisal should be relooked as there is evidence that it could demoralize employees with the consequent drop in productivity. It is recommended that the organization should adopt an appraisal system that gives results acceptable to employees at least. Again, employees should feel that the results reflect what they expect. Finally, education attainment is important for basic skills. However, this must be complemented by professional trainings which should be regular for all employees. It is recommended that this particular organization and other similar organizations should scout for the employees with professional skills