1.1 Background of the study

In motivating employee in an organization, it requires the management to create real and imagined needs for the employee to aspire to. These needs could be increased in wages/salaries. So many experiences have shown that Nigerian workers in both public and private sectors have been frustrated out of their jobs for reasons arising from the dissatisfaction of their job, lack of good training policies and training facilities, absence of adequate incentives etc. As a result, low morale in working behavior comes into play. The keys to the viability, survival and growth of an organization in the public and private sector are the effective acquisition, utilization and maintenance of the organization’s most valued asset human resources. No matter how vast or huge the financial and materials resources may be, somebody who is a human element will have to put them together and make them useful to the accomplishment of goals and objectives. The capacity of an organization to adopt, maintain itself, survive and grow in the face of changing condition depends largely in how effective and efficient the human resource can be managed and utilized. Lots of organizations are confronted with broad range of problems in dealing with the life wire of the organization, which is the human resource, which consists of all individual, irrespective of their roles, status and duties who are engaged in any of the organizations activities and its important, versatile, and valuable assets, it is the only resources that is blessed with the capabilities of thinking, planning, executing and achieving organizational goals. Furthermore, with these central roles played by human resource in an organization, it becomes evidently clear that their motivation should be given a top priority. The expectation of management of every organization is for employees to put in their best to achieve the goals of that said organization. This is the reason why management practitioners and most people tend to pay attention to motivation to boost employee morale at work.

1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Many contemporary authors have argued that motivation is a concept that cannot be ignored when talking of workers morale. Yet lack of motivation has made a whole lot of organization to collapse or at must run below their target. Motivated employees are needed in our rapidly changing workplace, motivated employee are more productive and help organizations to survive.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The objectives of the study are;

1. To examine the effect of motivation in increasing employee morale

2. To find out may be money (pay) is the main motivating factors that can make employee increase their level of performance.

3. To examine other inherent problem and constraints militating against effective employee motivation in an organization.

4. To suggest personal administrative system, policy and procedure that can assist organization to highly remunerate their workforce and reduction in the labour turnover.

1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES

For the successful completion of the study, the following research hypotheses were formulated by the researcher;  

H0 there is no effect of motivation in increasing employee morale  

H1:  there is effect of motivation in increasing employee morale

 H02:   there is no other inherent problem and constraints militating against effective employee motivation in an organization.

H2:   there is other inherent problem and constraints militating against effective employee motivation in an organization.