EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION: THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT IN NIGERIA.

This article explores the indispensability of employee motivation in effective organizational

management. In the style of a qualitative research, the paper x-rays, exhaustively, the merits, efficacy and

relevance of motivation in the success of organizational management. It also identifies and explains the

factors that affect employee motivation, the benefits of employee motivation in Nigerian organizations, some

theories of motivation and the significant link between effective organizational management and employee

motivation in Nigerian organizations, both the public and the private. For the fact that employee motivation

is an intricate and sophisticated subject, once applied in the right way an organization is bound to achieve a

long-lasting success. However, if ignored an organization will fizzle out in the game. For Nigerian managers

to have an understanding of employee motivation, they must know the concept of motivation, organizational

management, differences in individual needs and the variety of motivational factors and the changes in

priorities of these factors overtime. The necessity of this work is situated in it provision of solutions to

Nigerian employees’ redundant attitude to work and its consequences.