Abstract: The Nigerian civil Service as a government institution is expected to design, formulate, and implement public policies. These functions if efficiently discharged should result into tangible services for the populace. Nonetheless, this is not the case, which has resulted to the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of the civil service. In order to checkmate these problems, successive government in Nigerian embarked on different reforms. However, these reform efforts did not focus on talking these problems buton the symptomsrather than the cause. It also did not explore motivational strategies which remain critical to efficiency. The study was a survey and data was collected through the use of a 5 point Likert scale questionnaire with 244 civil servants of Wamba LGA of Nasarawa State. The study.......
Keywords: Motivation, Recognition, Pay, Increase, Efficiency.
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