Optimizing Manpower Utilization Through Personnel Motivation In State Secondary Education Board – Ebonyi State.

ABSTRACT

Motivation is one of the issues of concern in Human Resources

Management. This problem has occupied the attention of many Human

Resources Managers due to low level of manpower utilization in our public

sector. This work is motivated by the desire to inquire into how manpower

utilization can be optimized (increased) using motivation of personnel as a

tool, and to identify those motivational strategies that can satisfy employees

and increase their level of job performance, with particular attention Ebonyi

State Secondary Education Board.

A structured questionnaire was used for data collection. The Supervisor and

two other experts carried out the face and content validations. Four

hypotheses as was reflected in the four research questions guided the study.

Frequencies, percentages and Chi-Square method were used in the analysis.

It was found that motivation is a sure tool for optimizing manpower

utilization. And that many teachers left the teaching job because of lack of

motivation.

It was recommended that there is need for equity on how teachers in State

Schools and those of their counter-parts in unity Schools are being treated.

Hence, uniformity in basic salaries of graduates throughout the Country.

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