The Relationship Between Motivation and Employee Productivity in Bauchi State Higher Institutions

This study is about the motivation and employee productivity of Bauchi state institutions. The idea of motivation is thus one of the areas that had tremendous
contribution hence this study was conducted. The major problem facing institutions of learning especially in the developing world is the issue of withdrawal behavior i.e.
employee turnover intention, absenteeism and lateness hence this study investigate whether such problems has any relationship with motivational issue. A questionnaire
survey was conducted with one hundred and twenty questionnaires sent and eighty three filled questionnaires were returned. Analysis was conducted using the SPSS package to which the subsequent result of the correlations shows significant relationship between all the independent variables and the dependent variables except lateness which shows no relationship with the independent variables a multiple regression was also conducted and finally a discussion, recommendation and conclusion was made.