REWARD MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE IN DANGOTE CEMENT PLC, GBOKO, BENUE STATE

Abstract

This study titled Reward management practices and employees performance is carried out to investigate how reward management practices enhances the performance of employees in Dangote Cement PLC Gboko, Benue state. Specifically, the study decomposed the independent variable of reward management practices as salaries, employees’ recognition and fringe benefits while the dependent variable of employees’ performance is distilled with quality of work, timeliness and cooperativeness respectively. The methodology adopted is the research survey design, the total population is 825 but sample size 0f 261 was determined using the Godden’ sample size formula. More so, respondents were reached using a structured questionnaire. However out of the total respondents of 261 reached only 204 returned their questionnaire while usable questionnaire were 198 giving a response rate of 76%. In addition, the data collected using a 5 points Likert scale and analyzed using mean and standard deviation. However, the hypotheses were tested using linear regression. Findings revealed that there is a significant positive relationship between the proxies of reward management practices and employees performance respectively(r = .836, r = .862, r = .889, p-value <0.05).This implies that reward management practices enhance employees’ performance in Dangote cement plc Gboko, Benue state. Thus, the research recommends that employees’ reward management practices should be improved and periodic review be carried out in order to motivate employees towards higher performance.