A Dissertation Submitted in Partial/ fulfillment of the requirements for the
Award of Master of Science on Human Resources Management (Msc. HRM) of
Mzumbe University
The study conducted is about the “impact of employee’s motivation on performance
in the public sector in Tanzania” particularly at the President’s Office, Planning
Commission. Objectively, it aims on finding the problems which are caused by lack
of motivation and propose measures to be taken to overcome this problem for
organization and individual benefits. However the important of motivation has been
identified in chapter two. That the purpose of pay and incentives is to compensate
employees for work they do, to motivate them to perform well, to retain them, and
thereby avoid the need for expensive recruitment and training for replacement the
public service, like any other organization. POPC needs to compensate, motivate
and retain its employees so as to avoid incurring those costs. It is in this context that
the POPC management has been continues with efforts to motivate its workforce.
Chapter three was mainly concerned with different methods of data collection and
means of analyzing the collected data through organizational analysis and Task
analysis for the purpose of meeting the requirements of this study and hence
successful completion of this assignment.
The questionnaire included the section such as strategies used by the management to
improve employee motivation, level of satisfaction from the work they do, factors
used by POPC management to influence employee’s motivation and Challenges
facing by POPC management in the implementation of providing incentives to its
employees.
Data were collected from various POPC staff in different categories such as clusters,
divisions and units using different data collection tools and techniques like focus
group discussions, interviews, administering questionnaires and documentary
reviews. Feedback was received from individual employees through questionnaires,
interviews and holding focus group discussion.
The findings obtained from the research revealed that there is a need of motivation in
the organization otherwise it leads to various problems administratively in the daily
operational and decision making process.