ORGANIZATIONAL REWARD SYSTEM AND STAFF PRODUCTIVITY IN OSISIOMA NGWA L.G.A., ABIA STATE

This research work was conducted in order to view the reward system in an organization and their impact on the productivity of staff with Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State as the case study. The objective of this research work was to find out how the productivity of an organization depends on the method of rewarding his staff. The work addressed the problems of low productivity and low wages/salaries. The population of this study is 240 with sample size of 150 while retrieved copies of questionnaire is 130 and the sampling techniques used was stratified random method which is the probability method of sampling, the statistical method and simple percentage was used in analysing the data collected from the respondents. At the end, it was discovered that low reward leads to low productivity of the organization. The researcher therefore recommended that organizations should periodically review the salaries of staff regularly in line with the inflationary need. Again there should be effective and efficient communication between staff and the management so as to know their mind on the method of reward system that best suits the staff.