Perceived Compensation, Employee Motivation and Financial effects among Staff Members at St. Elizabeth Secondary School Kayunga
Abstract
The purpose of the study was to find out the relationship between perceived compensation,
employee motivation and financial effects among staff members at St. Elizabeth Secondary School
Kayunga. The research study was guided by the following objectives; To find out whether perceived
compensation and motivation relates to financial effects. To find out whether motivation relates to
financial effects and to find out the relationship between perceived compensation and financial
effects. The study adopted a correlation design because the variables to be studied needed to test the
cause and effect relationship as well as showing the numeric differences. Table 6 shows that there is
no significance relationship between Perceived Compensation and Employee motivation. This is
because the level of significant at .661 is greater in magnitude than the level of significance at 0.05 (r
=.051, p =.661>0.05). Table 7 shows that there is a positive correlation between employee
motivation and financial effects. This is because the level of significance at 0.000 is less in
magnitude than the level of significance at 0.05 (r =.434, p =.000 < 0.05). Table 8 shows that there is
no significant relationship between perceived compensation and employee motivation. This is
because the level of significance at 0.233 is greater in magnitude than the level of significance at 0.05
(r =.135, p =.233 > 0.05). it was concluded that; Perceived compensation is one of the most sensitive
areas of the organization where by the employee motivation and financial effects is based.
Organizations with clear commission, terms and conditions ensures a favorable work environment
that will motivate employees either or both intrinsically and extrinsically and once employees are in
such a position they are most likely to deliver effectively which enables the Organization to achieve
high level of financial effects in the long run. Therefore, managers of St Elizabeth primary school
need to improve on them, promote possible measures of Perceived compensation if they need
positive results from their employees