IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 10 NO. 11 2024
DOI: 10.56201/ijebm.v10.no11.2024.pg168.189

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Remuneration and Work Attitude of Employees in Pharmaceutical Industries in Nigeria

Golley Oyoma Doris, Odijie Keonyenasoa

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Abstract

The study evaluated Remuneration and Work Attitude of Employees in Pharmaceutical Industries in Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to examine the influence of Salary on employees Commitment in Pharmaceutical Industries in Nigeria and to justify the influence of Fringe Benefits on Job Involvement in Pharmaceutical Industries in Nigeria. The study was anchored on the Two Factor Theory by Frederick Herzberg in 1959. Survey research design will be chosen for data collection, while a population comprising of the senior staff of all the one hundred and sixty-five (165) Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industries in Nigeria. Taro Yamanne’s formula was used to determine the sample size from the population while Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used in testing the hypotheses. It is hoped that the findings of the study shall be useful to all organization and employee to promote the concept of remuneration and employee attitude to work

keywords:

Remuneration, Employee Attitude, Salary, Commitment, Fringe Benefits, Job

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