Effects of Monetary Rewards on the Performance of Legal Practitioners at The Attorney General’s Office in Nairobi

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue X, October 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Effects of Monetary Rewards on the Performance of Legal Practitioners at The Attorney General’s Office in Nairobi

 Paulina Warinda Anyanga¹, Dr. Lawrence Wainaina^2
1,²Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Kenyatta University, Kenya

Abstract: The office of the Attorney is coming under lots of pressure to deliver on their mandate. Several factors constrain the Attorney General’s Office to establish and enhance policies to improve in their performance. Despite the fact that a lot of money is spent to hire qualified employees and other staff, little attention has been given to workers perception towards their performance at Attorney General’s Office. The study generally investigates the effect of monetary rewards on the performance of legal practitioners at the Attorney General’s office in Nairobi. The study used descriptive research design. The population for this study consisted of 175 State Counsels or legal practitioners at Office of Attorney General. The study used proportionate stratified sampling method to ensure that all cases are well represented. The study adopted a 30% sample size representation of the total population targeted which resulted to a sample size of 56 respondents. Data was collected using questionnaires. Analysis of data was carried out using descriptive statistics and inferential analysis. The study established that monetary rewards had a positive significant influence on employee performance. The study concluded that monetary reward has a significant effect in terms of motivating employees and promoting teamwork that will enormously improve organizational performance thus lead to the organization to achieve its objectives. The study recommended that monetary reward system to be enforced to enhance the performance of the legal practitioners through giving better pay, bonuses, allowances, insurance, incentives, promotions and job security.

Keywords: Monetary rewards, Employee Performance, Human Resource Management Intervention

I. INTRODUCTION

Value creation by resource provider is crucial for organization’s employee performance. According to Danish and Usman (2010), employees in an organization are the most crucial assets since they contribute effectively to an organization’s successful operation. The current legal environment is featured with faster and diverse change; finance to cater for the welfare of the employees has to be resumed to enhance security and motivation by the organization (Malik, Ahmad, Gomez & Ali, 2011). Likewise, legal industry needs to bring together, resume and improve their stakeholders. In the developing world, the modern market competition has brought about dynamic impacts for organizations and people (Hafiza, Shah, Jamsheed & Zaman, 2011). That is why for legal firms to have enabling environment, it’s good to train and secure experienced human resources. Therefore, the area of employee management has

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