INTRODUCTION
Every day the problem of a functional wage and salaries burdens the government, the employers and the employee in both the public and private sectors of our economy. Wages and salaries questions are the most important of all terms in any economy. Not only they come up most frequently they also take more time to discuss and give rise to the greatest number of disputed. This leads to a conflict of interest because while wages are cost to the employers they are income to the workers (employees).
Nigeria workers have not for one day enjoyed a unified salary structure. In most cases the public sector enjoys a different wage system from that of the private. Though there has been an advancement in compensation, theories, criteria assumptions, techniques, relief measures and research into wages and salary scientist have for several years devoted much attention to the study of wage and salary and have developed variety of theories concerning the level of wage and its determination and role, which wages play in the functioning of the economy.
In the public sector organization, individual are employed to carryout various activities to achieve the organization stated goal and objectives. These individuals are the civil servant is the life wire of the state machinery and an essential factors for initial development, also he further stated that civil servant is a large scale organization of per market government paid official who are reunited in a civil capacity by the civil service commission, executive authority of government, and whose activities are guided by certain rules of procedure and operation in a systematically interrelated pattern to achieve the complex objectives of its government.
These government officials who are reunited in the service have at their disposal knowledge skills, attitude, experiences and qualification in order to meet with the goals to attract the government. The government/employers on the other hand have its disposal to pay, to attract the employee/civil servants to work for the government organizations and become her members. These pay is the wages and salary that are been paid to the civil servants.
The primary purpose of wages and salaries to the civil servant is to motivate her in order to provide high performance for the service and organizational efficiency and increased in productivity. The development of wages and salaries assumes that availability of accurate jobs prescription, are use in two activities, job evaluation and wages and salaries survey. these are designed to ensure that the payment system is both internally equitable and externally competitive. Wages and salaries play role to the civil servants, in that, it serves as a way of acquiring the necessities, luxuries needs of the civil servants, also it makes employee feel that his efforts have been recognized and may derived a sense of achievement from the job.
More so, on effective wages and salaries, policy provides guidelines for compensating its employees. This policy can address some which can aid in increasing their civil servants efficiency and effectiveness.
Therefore the sensitive impact of differential in wages and salary structure in Nigeria economy demands that the formulation and enforcement of a fair policy should be a matter of central importance at the national level.
It causes dissatisfaction or lack of satisfaction. For instance if workers “A” does not earn equal amount with “B” he will be angry with “B” and will not be satisfied with the amount he is been paid. Also deferential does not earn equal amount with his labourers or subordinates (workers) have good economy miles to see if they would meet up in economy situation and this will result to restless days and also over working. It causes negative productivity. In this case the difference in wages and salaries or worker will have to affect productivity because by worker not receiving the same amount of
compensation they will lead to a negative productivity or it will reduce the output of the organization.
The difference in wages and salary of workers may lead some workers taking unnecessary risk. This is so because the level of wages paid to works depends on the level rise associated with their job. Due to this so many workers have in one way or the other engaged themselves to so many types of risk in the sense that they went to satisfy their employers. After making use of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko library and with the help of the assistant there we were able to know some of the problems that are responsible for the difference in wages and salaries structure in Federal Polytechnic, Oko and they are as follows.
showed existing among the health personnel in the same organization, performing almost the same function is demoralizing to them and also affect their productivity and professional relationship in the organization. The administrative personnel are also saying that they also feed supervisors to the paramedical personnel.
This study will attempt to answer specific questions like:-
It is expected for any research work to provide answer to a particular problem. In view of this, this project tends:
This research study into the difference in wages and salary structure in Nigeria economy. a case study of Federal Polytechnic, Oko (Health sector) has one of its important and that providing valuable knowledge to workers in general and Federal Polytechnic, Oko staff in particular the volume of economy activities as well as the standard of living for the Nigeria working class citizen.
Other benefit that will be derived from this project work are:
To eliminate inequities within Federal Polytechnic, Oko wage structure and also to maintain an equitable labour cost structure which invariable will help to facilitate Nigeria economic development . Since the impact of wages and salaries review effect the whole national generally this project will also help recommending for parity in the Nigeria institutional system applicable to the whole public sector. Also this work will help to balance of payment with the various prices increase and reduce the frequently of salary review which negates stability and unifies salary structure.
This project work is not directed at identifying the impact of non uniform wages and salaries structure in the Nigeria public sector using Federal Polytechnic, Oko as the case study.
1.7 Limitation of the Study
However, the suggestion offered may be found useful by other corporations.
In carrying out this research work, there were a lot of limitations that affected the study. These involves:
iii) Literatures related to this study were not sufficient enough for thoroughly research, as a result, limiting the collection of relevant data.
To buttress this statement, it is stated clearly in the theory of Douglas Mc. Gregor that “the expenditure of physical and mental effort in work is natural as play or rest”. The average human being does not inherently dislike work.
iii) With the aid of the study, an industrial sector either private or public, will know how and when the efficiency of their labour.
1.9 Organization of the Study
This research work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows. Chapter one is concern with the introduction, which consist of the (background of the study), statement of the problem, purpose of the study, research questions, significance of the study, scope of the study etc. Chapter two being the review of the related literature presents the theoretical framework, conceptual framework and other areas concerning the subject matter. Chapter three is a research methodology covers deals on the research design, area of the study, population of the study, sample and sampling techniques, methods of data collection, instruments for data collection, reliability of the instruments, validity of the instruments, distribution and retrieval of instruments and methods of data analysis. Chapter four concentrate on the data collection and analysis and presentation of finding. Chapter five gives summary, conclusion, and recommendations made of the study