Public Service, Pay and Productivity in Nigeria
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Public service, pay and productivityAbstract
The paper looked at the public service and the approached to pay which operated since the 1970's as not valid these days when enterprises are key to success. It sees reward management as concerned with the design, implementation and maintenance of a remuneration system, which helps an organization achieve its objectives, provides for competitive levels of remuneration and ensures that it is linked explicitly to contribution, performance and productivity. The paper also looked at relationship between pay and productivity as key organizational variables that close attention should be given to in the public services and Compare measurement of productivity in the private sector visa- vis public services as un-priced institutions with full range of outputs delivered by public sector organizations usually valued by society. The paper adopts content analysis and relies on secondary data for the paper.
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