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INTRODUCTION
1. INTRODUCTION.
This chapter present the back ground of the study, statement of the problem, research
objective both general and specific objectives, research questions, significances of
the study, limitation and finally present the scope of the study.
According to Ingrams, (2020). Described how public managers can motivate public
employees towards achieving public purposes in his article "The Big Questions of
Public Management." In order to guarantee that services are provided to citizens in
an effective and efficient manner, the performance of staff members in public
institutions is crucial.
Essential services including water, energy, healthcare, and education are provided by
public institutions and are crucial to a nation's prosperity and well-being (Ingrams,
2020).Therefore, in order to give the residents high-quality services, it is imperative
that the staff members of these institutions give their all (Oluwajoba, et al., 2019).
Therefore, employees' job performance in the public sector in Tanzania has been
subject to concern for many years, despite the various government efforts to improve
the quality of public service delivery and the quality of employees’ performance at
work (Senkoro., 2022). Many public officials have been accused of poor
performance, inefficiency and ineffectiveness, corruption, and misconduct.
The reasons for poor performance of employees in the public sector are inadequate
training and supervision of employees (Senkoro., 2022).Many public officials lack
the necessary skills and knowledge to perform their duties effectively, leading to low
productivity and poor quality of services.
In today's cutthroat business environment, the private sector is the public sector's
primary rival. The public sector performs worse than the private sector when it
comes to providing services, helping customers solve problems, professionalism,
motivation, payment, and even time management (Ali, 2022). The private sector also
outperforms the public sector in other areas, such as how they treat their employees
and how they handle payments, recognition, and working conditions. The majority of
workers in the public sector are not very motivated, and some of them perform below
par (Alex Ingrams, 2020). Despite the government's efforts to ensure employee
training and development as well as motivation, employees’ performance is not full
enough, and some of them are not committed to performing based on the
requirements of the employment contract, which makes some customers complain
about the services they receive from public services (Satyvendra., 2019). So, based
on that, there are some factors that affect employees’ performance. The purpose of
this study is to assess the factors that affect employees’ job performance in the public
sector.
The generally objective of this study is to assess the factors that affect employees’
job performance in public sector At Mlele District Council.
Research question.
This study was conducted at Mlele District Council, covering all levels of employees
from different departments. This helps in some exploration of the factors affecting
employees’ performance in the public sector, where the research is specific to
assessing three factors, which are the working environment, job security, and
employee recognition.
The purpose of this study is to assess the factors affecting employee’s job
performance in public sector. The study is vital to both employers, employee, and
researcher.
Employees will benefit by given the opportunity to express their individual views on
factors affecting their performance and its impact at the work place, as well as
provide recommendations for what the organization should do.
The study will also help management, as the results will be presented to them along
with recommendations from the respondents. It will assist management to be aware
with the factors that affect employee’s job performance and find the reasonable
solution on it in order to boost employee’s moral.
Lastly, this study will enable the researcher to fulfill the partial requirement for the
awarded of Bachelor degree of Human Resources Management of Mzumbe
University.
In the process of conducting this research, the researcher has encountered some
limitations and challenges in the process of conducting research and collecting
information. such as privacy as some data were not disclosed due to privacy
protection, time, shortage of funds, inaccessibility of some information or data,
unavailability and unwillingness of some of the respondents due to the limited
timetable of the targeted respondents in their working place, which made it very
difficult to meet them, no direct willingness to some of the respondents who were
assigned questions by the researcher, and also a shortage of time due to the limited
timetable.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0 Introduction
This chapter consists of the description on the literature review, it will consist on the
projection about how pother authors have presented their literary works in respect to
the topic, also definition of key terms and concepts in relation to employee’s
performance, and lastly it will show the research gape which exists between the other
works and this work.
Maslow's second level of requirements, safety needs, are motivated by the need for
law and order, protection from harmful situations, and a sense of security and safety
in one's life and surroundings (Sachs., 2020).
Maslow's third level of needs, love and belonging needs, focuses on human social
interaction and the need for friendship, intimacy, family, and love (Stoyanov, 2019).
These needs are crucial for individuals to feel like they belong in a group, and when
deprived, they can lead to loneliness or depression (Sachs., 2020).
Maslow's fourth level, esteem needs, pertains to a person's desire for recognition,
status, and respect after fulfilling their love and belonging needs, they seek to fulfill
their esteem needs (Maslow, 2019). Self-actualization needs are the fifth and final
level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, focusing on the realization of an individual's
full potential. This level involves acquiring skills, continuing education, using
knowledge and talents, pursuing life dreams, and seeking happiness. Individuals may
strive to become the best parent, friend, millionaire, philanthropist, or famous athlete,
all aiming for personal growth and happiness (Maslow, 2019). This level of
Maslow's hierarchy is crucial for personal growth and success.
From the fact above employees job performance depend on the five stage as
explained and actually Maslow theory is foundation of this study due to it provide
different matters to consider in order to ensure employees a well-motivated in order
to foster their effort on contribution of organization goals especially in public sector.
2.2.2 Herzberg's two factors theory.
Motivational factors, meanwhile, refer to the things that inspire people to do great
work and feel good about doing it, like recognition and achievement (Randhawa,
2019). They're also called growth factors because they can help people grow as
individuals and professionals.
Motive factors; these are based on individuals need for personal growth which
consists of recognition, advancement, sense of achievement, growth and promotional
opportunities, responsibility, meaningfulness of the work (Sachs., 2020). The
presence of these factors in the job creates a motivating environment.
But their absence does not cause dissatisfaction. Employees are not motivated by
hygiene factors like salaries alone buts there are various other factors than the salary
which can motivate employees to perform well to their roles and duties and
responsibilities.
Base on that there different factors which may affect employees’ job performance
and also not only intricate factors make employees to be motivated even external
factor is very crucial in employees job performance (Randhawa, 2019).
The theory suggests that, although individuals may have different sets of goals, they
can be motivated if they believe that there is a positive correlation between effort and
performance, and that favorable performance will result in a desirable reward (John
Shields, 2020).
The reward will eventually satisfy the need and the desire to satisfy the need is strong
enough to make the effort worthwhile. The theory is based upon three aspects,
valence, instrumentality and expectancy (Randhawa, 2019). ‘Valence’ refers to the
emotional orientations people hold with respect to outcomes (rewards). It also means
the depth of the needs of an employee for extrinsic reward (such as money,
promotion, time-off, benefits,) or intrinsic (such as work satisfaction) reward
(bedeian, 2020).
On the other hand, ‘expectancy’ suggests that employees have different expectations
and levels of confidence about what they are capable of doing and management must
discover what resources, training or supervision employees need. Whereas,
‘instrumentality’ means the perception of employees as to whether they will actually
get what they desire, even if it has been promised by a manager (Deci, 2019).
Management must ensure that promises of rewards are fulfilled and that employees
are aware of that. Vroom suggested that an employee's beliefs about expectancy,
instrumentality, and valence interact psychologically to create a motivational force
such that the employee acts in ways that bring pleasure and avoid pain.
This includes tools, systems, structures, and procedures which includes all things
effecting performance of the employees it may either impact negatively or positively
(Satyvendra., 2019). The non-physical environment include all which is intangible
for example location and the surrounding area ventilation, noise levels, quality of air
in the workplace, parking lots, tangible perks for example lunch, tea, and coffees,
building of offices, setup of the office (Shammout, 2021).
For instance, if he is demanded work with out of his capacity and is not given enough
support to do that job or enough time for it. Even though he might be given rewards
in achieving those targets. He might still be not satisfied causing job stress and no
support from the supervisor as stated by (Satyvendra., 2019). It would also result in
low productivity and performance.
Employees not only want compensation in order to be motivated but also need to be
valued by their supervisors because from the human relation theory stated that man is
not only economic man due on that’s there some internal factors which can motivate
employees on behalf of money by consider those internal factors It will increase the
employees’ morale (Blokydk, 2020).
Other studies show that it is better to recognize employees rather than give incentives
for example, employee recognition involves writing their names in the company’s
newsletter, letters of commendation, extra time off and verbal appreciation this is a
form of caring and appraising the employees (Kyeremeh, 2019).
Employee recognition programs have become more popular and accepted in most
organizations as a result of insufficiency of financial rewards alone to motivate high
performance (Kyeremeh, 2019). It has been proven that financial rewards only
motivate employees temporarily (Shonubi, 2019).
Organizations recognize their employees to keep their self-esteem high and keep
them passionate. The employees who are recognized in their organizations are well
motivated and perform well. This is because motivated employees perform well
which makes one’s intent towards certain behavior (Shonubi, 2019).
Equally important is the firm’s or organization’s guarantee that its employees will
work for them for a fair period of time without being fired or dismissed in violation
of the law (hopner, 2023).
For instance, individual ‘A’ has job security if he or she feels that they will continue
to work till the conclusion of their employment and would not be under duress to do
their appropriate job tasks and obligations by individual ‘B’ Job insecurity, on the
other hand, is a condition in which workers do not believe that their job will be
consistent from day to day, month to month and/or year to year (Ndulue, 2019).
The duo recognized two major characteristics of work uncertainty, affective job
insecurity (the dread of job loss) and cognitive job insecurity (the probability of job
loss). Furthermore, job security factors include the fear of losing a job, unequal pay,
engagement, connections with supervisors and possibilities for development and
advancement (Ndulue, 2019).
Employment security is the mental state in which an employee views his or her
future job security with the business, and it is the result of the firm’s own practices
and policies with the employee that makes them feel more secure or worried about
the employment (Ndulue, 2019). Hence, job security may be viewed from three
main dimensions viz. employees’ promotion, development and salary.
Working conditions
Job security
The figures above express the relationship between variables. The outcome of the
relationship between independent and dependent variables (Changder, 2022). The
figure try to explain that the changes in academic research, a conceptual framework
is used as a foundation for designing studies and interpreting data (Bynner, 2020). It
provides a structure of identification the variables, and the development of research
questions. It also helps researchers to explain their findings and make predictions
about future outcomes.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0 Introduction
This part includes research methodology, research design, the purpose of the
study, targeted population, sample size, sample procedure, method of data
collection, methods of data analysis, validity and reliability of the study, as
well as the ethical considerations described in this chapter.
3.1 Research Design
A research design is an arrangement of conditions for the collection and
analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine relevance to the research
purpose with economy of procedure (Leavy, 2022). Refer to the blue print of
the study, which designed by the researcher in order to guide him or her on
the process of data collection as well as on the discussion process (Bynner,
2020). This study uses a quasi-qualitative technique for analyzing variables
on the factors affecting employees’ job performance in the public sector.
3.2 Research methodology
Research methodology can be seen as a science that studies how scientific
research is conducted, or it can be a methodical approach to solving the
research problem (Bynner, 2020). The researcher must be knowledgeable
about methodology, research methods, and approaches (Dubey, 2022).
3.3 Area of the study
Referring to the place on which researchers select in order to collect data and
conduct the research project, the process of selecting the area of the study
depends on various factors such as the nature of the study, the availability of
accurate data, economic factors, and legal considerations (Dubey, 2022). In
this study, the selected area is MLELE DC, which is located in the Katavi
region, and that area was used to collect data for the research project titled
Assessing the Factors Affecting Employees Job Performance in the Public
Sector.
3.4 Targeted population.
Refer to the total number of people selected by the researcher to be the
participants or center point of data collection (Changder, 2022). In the
process of selecting the target population, it depends on the nature of the
study as well as the required information and data based on the specific study.
According to Sharang. (2020)., the target population is the collection of
elements or objects that possess the information sought by the researcher and
about which inferences are to be made, while the target population must be
defined in terms of elements or a sampling unit. In this research, the target
population was 68 employees of MLELE DC HQ.
3.5 Sample Size and Sampling Procedures
3.3.1 Sampling Procedure
The procedure for sampling things is taken into account to prevent bias.
Purposive sampling and basic random sampling are the two types of sampling
that the researcher employs to determine the sample in the study areas
(Bynner, 2020). Purposive sampling, as well as basic random samples, are
used. According to Sharang. (2020)., purposeful sampling is a sampling
technique in which the researcher chooses a sample of individuals who they
feel are more qualified to offer the necessary information. A simple random
sample was chosen by the researcher because it is easy to handle, fairly
representative of the population under investigation, and provides the
necessary data for the factors affecting employees’ job performance in public
sector (Changder, 2022). Using these two approaches, data was gathered from
every department according to the number of employees working at MLELE
DC.
3.3.2 Sample size
A sample is a smaller group of subjects drawn from the population in which a
given study was conducted for the purpose of drawing conclusions about the
population targeted. For example, Sharang. (2020) argued that the result from
the sample can be used to make generalizations about the entire population as
long as it is truly represented. The study was executed at MLELE DC, and the
total population was 68 employees who serve at HQ from different
departments. The sample size was calculated using the Yamane formula in
order to gate the total sample size.
Where:
n = Sample size to be studied
N= Population size
e = margin of error
From the above formula, the sample size for this study was:
68
n=
2
1+68(0.05)
68
1+0.17
68
1.17
= 58.1~58
From the above formula, the required sample for this study was 58 people
which will include all interested parts. The interested party had been selected
by using purposive and simple random.
3.6 Data Collection Methods
The methods used to collect the data are covered in this part. They can be
divided into two categories: primary data collection methods and secondary
data collection methods. Primary sources are more reliable sources of
information, but secondary sources demonstrate how your work connects to
previous research (Bynner, 2020).
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