The Effects Of Motivation On The Performance Of Employees At Agricultural Development Bank,Ghana

This study focused on motivational factors and their influence on employee performance in Agricultural Development Bank,Ghana.The reason for conducting the study was that there has been a problem of employee demotivation in the financial institution.How employees are perceived,treated and how they feel about themselves and ultimately their output directly or indirectly has an impact on their performance and development of the organization.Demotivated employees under no circumstance will churn out decreased performance.The aim of this study was to find out the effect of motivation on the performance of Agricultural Development Bank workers.The study adopted the mixed approach of research design and the case study method to provide answers to research questions formulated.A non-probability design with the purposive sampling technique was employed to select and sample the opinion of 150 workers of Agricultural Development Bank on the issue.Data obtained from the field survey was later analyzed using SPSS.The study revealed that indeed there is a relationship between motivation and performance and aside the known fact that money is the key amongst the motivational factors to employees,it was realized that employees are gradually becoming particular about trust,respect and high expectation,recognition and appreciation and good working environment.The study therefore concluded that great strides be made to motivate all staff to enhance performance.The researcher recommends that management attaches more importance to issues of employee motivation to make the institution survive amongst its competitors.Most of the participants were in agreement that inadequate motivational factors were responsible for poor job performance.The research showed that inadequate salary and other motivational factors like quality of work life,promotion,supervision,and teamwork lead to counterproductive work behaviour.The study recommended that the leadership in Agricultural Development Bank needed to be aware of the needs of the employees and be able to meet those needs.There was also need to have ethical codes of conduct to prevent counterproductive work behaviour like absenteeism,lateness,job turnover,loafing,anti-social behaviour,and theft/fraud.ADB Bank needed to provide equitable remuneration,and training and development of the employees.