Effect of compensation on employee motivation. Case study of teachers’ service commission, (tsc) Kisumu, Kenya.

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2010-07
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Kampala international international: College Humanities and Social Sciences
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The problem under investigation was to assess the effects of compensation on employee motivation. In short, the researcher wanted to know how salary, incentives and benefits affect the motivation of employees in an organization. Teachers Service Commission was adopted as a case study being that in the past decade TSC has promised teachers a salary increment and equalizing the salary, which to presently have never been fulfilled resulting into strikes and poor performance. This study adopted a case study research design, in which the researcher used both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis. Qualitative design was used to collect information from the respondents on the attitudes and opinions, whereas, quantitative design was used to collect numerical data. Purposive sampling was used to select Kisumu as the research site and specifically TSC as an organization. Simple random sampling was used to select employees as respondent for the study. a questionnaire that was had both open ended and closed ended question were used research instruments. A total of 75 respondents were drawn from both the secondary and primary teachers and education officers. The findings of the study revealed that salary was a strong motivational factor for the employees. It was also found out that benefits could not really motivate employees to work but it only provided employees with job satisfaction. Incentives were also noted to be motivators for employees to work.
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A research dissertation submitted to school of business and management in partial fulfillment for the award of bachelor’s degree in human resource management of Kampala international university.
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Human Resource Management, Compensation, Employee motivation, Teachers’ service commission, Kisumu
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