Employee Motivation and Employee Intention to Leave of Selected Food and Beverages Manufacturing Companies in Ogun State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT: The conditions of employment in several food and beverages companies have been inadequate in the area of job security, redundancy, health, welfare and safety of workers which are not favourable to the employees. As most of the employees complained that their hard work and efforts are not always put into consideration when the organisation wants to downsize; rather, the management attaches some elements of organisational politics. This often results in poor motivation, in employees as they often become uncomfortable and opt to leave the organisation. Therefore, this paper examines the effect employee motivation and employee intention to leave of selected food and beverages manufacturing companies in Ogun State, Nigeria. The research design to be used for this the study will be a cross-sectional survey research design. Primary data was sourced using a structured and self-administered questionnaire. The population of this study consists 3557 employees in 3selected food and beverage companies in Ogun State, Nigeria (Nestle Plc, Honeywell Flour Mill Plc and International Breweries Plc). A sample size for the study was 451 determined using the Roasoft Sample Size calculator was used.The reliability of the instrument was achieved by the use of the Cronbach Alpha coefficient with all the items scoring above 0.70. The hypothesis was tested using the simple linear regression analysis which was carried out with the aid of statistical package forsocial sciences (SPSS) version 21. The findings revealed that employee motivation does not have a significant effect on employee intention to leave (R=0.093,R2 = 0.009, F = 3.750, p0.053>0.05). The study concludes that concludes that employee motivation does not significantly contribute employee intention to leaveof selected food and beverages manufacturing companies in Ogun State, Nigeria. Therefore, the study recommends that motivation is a critical ingredient in employee performance and productivity. Even when people have the right skills, clear work objectives, and a supportive work environment, they would not get the job done without ample motivation to meet those work
objectives. Thus Nigerian manufacturing companies need to encourage the relationship that exist among its
employees through effective motivation in relation to enhance employee outcome.
KEYWORDS:Employee Motivation, Employee Intention to Leave, Food and Beverage Companies