ABSTRACT
The study comprehensively delved on the effect of salaries and wages on workers performance in the education sector. The objective of the study is to examine whether increment in wages and salaries serves as motivator to retain worker in an organization and to examine whether inadequate pay to workers can lead to absenteeism, lateness and strikes etc. the survey research method was employed in this study, the questionnaire was the major instrument used to collect information from the respondents. The chi-square test was used to analyze the collected information from the respondent at 5% level of significance. The result of the analysis revealed that inadequate salaries and wages may lead to brain in the education sector. The study also reveals that salaries and wages help employees to achieve organizational goals and objectives and it was recommended that the study educational sector should make sure that the compensation rewards given to the employees is in commensurate with the labour on service he / she rendered.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Salaries and wages are the main marketing tolls companies use to attract qualified employees, and it is one of the largest operating. Costs for large organizations. The long-term success of a firm perhaps its survival many depend on how well it can control employee cost and optimize employee efficiency.
For the owners of the company, wages and salaries represents a substantial part of the total costs of doing business. How well the company controls these costs and how much employee productivity. If obtains in return can have an important effect on the success of the enterprise.
The employee’s view of wages and salaries structure is generally different in important respects from that of the company. This is one of the key compensation problems in many enterprises. Even when the pay programme is sound, well administered, and effectively communicated, difficulties can arise if employee aspirations are out of phase with company objectives or if !he employee’s concept of a fair and equitable programme is different from that of the company.