World Journal of Management and Behavioral Studies 3 (1): 01-08, 2015 ISSN 2306-840X © IDOSI Publications, 2015 DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wjmbs.2015.3.1.1314 Corresponding Author: Nnamani Emeka, Department of Business Administration, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT) Enugu, Nigeria. 1 The Effect of Employee Motivation on Organizational Performance of Selected Manufacturing Firms in Enugu State Nnamani Emeka, Ozobu Amaka and E.P. Ejim 1 2 3 Department of Business Administration, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT) Enugu 1 Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, (ESUT) Enugu 2 Department of Business Administration, Institute of Management and Technology, (IMT) Enugu 3 Abstract: The study investigated the Effect of Employee Motivation on Organizational Performance of selected manufacturing firms in Enugu State. The objectives of the study include among others include to examine the effect of employee motivation on organizational performance and also to determine the effect of salary as a factor that increases motivation of employee in an organization. The population of the study was 120 workers of selected manufacturing firms in Enugu State. And the sample size is 103, which was gotten with Yaro Yameni formular. The study used descriptive statistics to answer three research questions posed for the study. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was used to test the three hypotheses that guided the study. The result obtained from the analysis showed that there existed Relationship between employee motivation and the organizational performance. The study revealed that extrinsic motivation given to workers in an organization has a significant influence on the workers performance. This is in line with Equity theory which emphasizes that fairness in the remuneration package tends to produce higher performance from workers. The researcher recommended that all firms should adopt extrinsic rewards in their various firms to increase productivity. On the bases of these findings, employers are continually challenged to develop pay policies and procedures that will enable them to attract, motivate, retain and satisfy their employees. The researcher therefore suggest that more research should be conducted on the relationship and influence of rewards on workers performance using many private and public organizations which will be a handy tool that could be used to provide solutions to individual conflict that has resulted from poor reward Key words: Employee Motivation Organizational Performance Remuneration Rewards INTRODUCTION training and those not contributing to the efficiency and Good remuneration to workers has been found over performance on the job can be assessed at all levels of the years to be one of the policies the organization can employment such as: personnel decision relating to adopt to increase their workers performance and thereby promotion, job rotation, job enrichments etc. increase the organizations productivity. Also, with the In Nigeria, interest in effective use of rewards to present global economic trend, most employers of labour influence workers performance to motivate them began in have realized the fact that for their organizations to the 1970’s. So many people have carried out researches in compete favorably, the performance of their employees this area [2 and 3]. The performance of workers has goes a long way in determining the success of the become important due to the increase concern of human organization. On the other hand, performance of resources and personnel experts about the level of output employees in any organization is vital, not only for the obtained from workers due to poor remuneration. This growth of the organization, but also for the growth of attitude is also a social concern and is very important to individual employees [1]. An organization must know who identify problems that are obtained in industrial setting are its outstanding workers, those who need additional due to nonchalant attitudes of managers to manage their welfare of the company or organization. Also,