INFLUENCE OF MOTIVATION ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC SECTOR THE CASE OF EAST HARARGHE ZONE OFFICES OROMIA REGION, EASTERN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Motivation is stated as one of the most important contributor for high performance in the public sector. Financial motivation practices, participation in decision making, and other non-financial motivation practices (team work, Job rotation and work enrichment) are motivation systems to encourage employees to perform in the most effective way. The key to create efficient motivation system is an answer to the question what really motivate employees. The general objective of this research is to assess the effect of motivation on employee performance in East Hararghe zone public sectors. The descriptive research design was employed for the study. Both Purposive and simple random sampling was used to select sectors and individual respondents respectively. The data collecting instruments were questionnaire. To analyze the data, descriptive statistic such as mean, percent and standard deviation were computed. Moreover, inferential statistics of correlation analysis, regression analysis and ANOVA analysis with a .05 alpha level employed to test for statistical significance. The finding of this study also showed that the combination of determinant factor(.financial motivation practices , participation in decision making, and other non-financial motivation practices)have positive effect on employees’ job performance , however financial motivation practices is more motivator than other. Moreover, further in depth investigation of the problem is recommended.