Tansian University Journal of Arts, Management & Social Sciences

This paper explored motivation as an integral part of personnel management. It looked at some theoretical perspectives of motivation as a critical support function of school administrators. The topic evolved from basic duties of personnel management. Organisation of the paper began with an introduction that set forth the topic parameter and its rationale. This was followed by the contextual meaning of motivation as it related to management of personnel in education industry. The chapter provided a tutorial for management students, personnel managers and school administrators as a whole, where they can embrace the basics as well as advanced concepts that are related to motivation processes. Some of the significant topics dealt with in this paper were: Motivation incentives, Ways for building staff motivation in school organization, Motivational need analysis, Features of good motivation, Motivational challenges and the way out. The paper was concluded with some suggested strategies to facilitate motivation, which if implemented, would help to improve performance amongst staff and achieve high productivity in school organization.

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