| dc.description.abstract | All institutions have goals and objectives to accomplish and this defines their reason for existence. Effective management in these institutions is a necessary tool in improving an enabling working environment in which all workers work together as a team and as individuals towards the accomplishment of the organization’s set goals. Substantially, employees are motivated by the jobs they do and the context of these jobs. If there's motivation, performance is possible. Therefore, effective employee motivation management is vital to the workplace, whether at the time of recruitment, during an employees’ tenure or at the time of separation.
Maintaining healthy employee motivation in education institutions has been unnecessarily difficult and this has been due to human resource practices which in turn affects job performance and the overall school performance. Therefore, this study was carried out to establish the relationship between human resource practices, employee motivation and job performance using Yudesi Primary School in Mulago, Kampala as a case study.
The research employed the co-relational survey design which is under the quantitative approach. The target population of this research was 75 teachers and the study targeted teachers of Yudesi Primary School, Mulago because they had the provide the relevant information that was needed by the researcher. The sample size of the research was 63 employees as recommended in the Krejcie and Morgan’s table for determining sample size (1970) and Simple random sampling technique was used to select the samples from the population of Yudesi Primary School. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), and the Hypotheses were tested using Pearson r correlation and a level of significance of 0.05. Descriptive statistics were obtained including frequencies and percentages of each variable
Findings from the study revealed that HR practices influence the motivation and performance of employees in academic institutions through practices like training and development, performance appraisals, employee relationships and employee motivation. As seen also seen in the literature review, HR practices played a huge part in the motivation and performance of employees within organizations.
Since managing human resources effectively has become fundamental for academic institutions in particular, it is important for employers to put in place good strategies and the right human resource practices that employees will embrace in order to be committed to their job and make their jobs look like a hobby to them. This study recommends that Institutions should adopt HR practices that encourages and keeps an open communication with employees and also adopt management techniques like showing appreciation by thanking their employees for the job they’re doing, either in person or in writing or both that trigger motivation within the employee. | en_US |
