The Impact of Motivation on Employee/Work Performance in the Electricity Company of Ghana
Employment must be associated with decent work environment, decent company policies and a well designed safety measures for the employees; most especially for a working environment such as electrical companies in Ghana. In this connection, there have been so many reports of fatalities, injuries and malpractices among various electrical companies in Ghana that are not given serious attentions by the authorities. It is maybe because there is no strong evidence on the incidents. This case study found out that employment in electrical companies in Ghana is associated with low standard of working conditions among the employees in the organization. Allegedly, many employees are being physically abused by their employers.
(http://www.uneca.org/eca_programmes/nrid/pubs/PowerSectorReport.pdf)
Motivation is very integral part of any organization, in order to inspire the work force to excel in their jobs with all willingness and enthusiasm; this is a major factor to make the employees happy and contented while doing their tasks in a company. Aside from this fact, an excellent working condition and environment both coincide in order to motivate employees to perform well in their jobs. Furthermore, decent work condition is a best strategy to attain sustainable development among the workers. In similar, promoting the rights of the employees during working hours can be categorized as a promotion of human rights in the work place. This condition could have led to excellent productivity, fair income, security among workers, and could have even provided social protection and better prospects for personal and professional development and growth among the employees. However, this is not the case of the electrical employees in Ghana. Based on the research, there are about 200 million of children between the ages of 5 to 15 years old who are already working in different companies for their survival. In the same way, there are about 12.5 million of people who are engaged in forced labor in various electrical companies in the region as well. Additionally, most of the workers in Ghana’s electrical companies do not even have basic incentives. The worst thing is it is very rare case to find an employee in Ghana who is being treated decently by the owner or management. Majority of the working people in electrical companies are not receiving minimum salary from their employers. This is the primary reason that many households are being deprived of having decent living condition. More than that, working people is frightened to fight for their rights at work places because they fear of loosing their jobs. As a result, the employees have been just accustomed with the mismanagement, substandard working conditions, as well as the negative rules and policies of the companies. According to research, many workers are being tortured and killed, some are sent to long term imprisonment after attempting to stand up for their individual rights as employees. Some of the employees are being exploited and abused by their employers, but, instead of taking revenge, they are more contented of the inhuman treatment of their employers, as long as there is little amount of money they can take home for their family, and as long as they have the job, it is already fine with them.
(http://allafrica.com/stories/201008180948.html)
Consequently, working with electricity is a dangerous job. Many employees such as engineers, electricians and other professionals work with electricity directly, that includes the working on overhead lines, cable harnesses and circuit assemblies. Besides, office employees, laborers, sales people are all work with electricity indirectly are also exposed to electrical hazards conditions of the working environment. In Ghana, electricity industry has been considered a serious workplace hazard in the region. This is the major reason that OSHA’s is a regulatory agency in Ghana for electrical standards policies that must be implemented by electrical companies in the region. They are designed in order to protect their entire work force from dangers such s electric shock, electrocution, fires and explosions. Nevertheless, this electricity working regulations are not followed by the electrical companies in the region. At the same time, many workers are not aware of the potential electrical hazardous elements in their working environment. This factor makes them even more susceptible to the danger of electrocution. In view thereof, various reports revealed that thousands of youth die early in the electrical industry, or acquired respiratory problems and other diseases due to occupational hazards they get from electrical companies. The most significant fact here, youth make about eighty percent of the total Ghana’s population, and only few of them are employed, and worst thing is most of them working are even employed by abusive employers. To end this study, it may therefore conclude that electrical companies in Ghana do not even know what “motivation” in work places is like. And, it could have been a tough job for the Ghana government to escalate the working condition of the employees in electrical industry.
(http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/electrical/index.html)
References:
(http://www.uneca.org/eca_programmes/nrid/pubs/PowerSectorReport.pdf)
(http://allafrica.com/stories/201008180948.html)
(http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/electrical/index.html)
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