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VOL. 11, ISSUE 4 (2025)
Impact of motivation on task performance and contextual performance among employees of correctional centres in south-south geo-political zone of Nigeria
Authors
Goodluck Ofobruku
Abstract
Tasks performance and contextual performance
are employee behaviours that accumulate into organizational performance, and
identifying the antecedents of these employee behaviour is of intense interest
for both researchers and practitioners. Therefore, this study examined the
influence of employee motivation on tasks performance and contextual
performance among employees of correctional centres in South-south geopolitical
zone of Nigeria. This study design is quantitative and cross-sectional as
numerical data were collected at a point in time. Three hundred and
ninety-eight participants were used in the conduct of this study and they
comprise 345 (87%) men and 53 (23%) women with age mean of 36 years.
Self-administered questionnaires were used to collected data. Regression was
the statistical tool for data analysis. SPSS version 23 was the statistical
software adopted. Two hypotheses were tested and the analyze data provided
confirmation for the tested hypotheses. In specific, motivation positively and
significantly predicted employee task performance (b= .18, 95% CI [.09 .27], t
= 3.93, p < .001), and employee contextual performance (b= .50, 95% CI [.38
.26], t = 8.28, p < .001). The results revealed that motivating correctional
centres employees would foster their task-oriented performance and contextual
performance. Consequently, the recommendation is that correctional centres
management should recognize, reward, and design job accordingly.to build
workforce that is motivated and thereby foster their task performance and
contextual performance.
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Pages:18-26
How to cite this article:
Goodluck Ofobruku "Impact of motivation on task performance and contextual performance among employees of correctional centres in south-south geo-political zone of Nigeria". International Journal of Commerce and Management Research, Vol 11, Issue 4, 2025, Pages 18-26
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