The Effects of Employee Motivation on Work Performance at Lushoto District Hospital from Tanga Region, Tanzania

This study was intended to assess the effects of the employee motivation on work performance at Lushoto District Hospital.The study findings showed that there were poor work performance which caused by poor employee motivation at the study area. The qualitative and quantitative researches were used and the study adopted the cross-sectional research design.The tools of data collection were questionnaires, interviews, observation and documentary analysis. These tools and methods enabled the study to get enough and useful information about the work. The study applied both purposive and random sampling in selecting sample from population. The sample size used during the data collection was 88 from respondents.The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS Version 21) was used to analyze the data.The study concludes that there was a poor work performance caused by the poor employee motivation at the study. Hence, the study recommends that the hospital management should ensure the employee motivation is well implemented as stipulated by the government policy, rules and regulations in order to increase the work performance at the study area.

Motivation, Motivation Packages, Incentives

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