Effectiveness of Workers Compensation Practices in Public Organizations

The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of workers compensation practices in public organizations, in Tanzania. The specific objectives were to determine type of employee compensation packages provided by the public organizations in Tanzania, to assess the perception of employers on practices of employee compensation in public organization and to examine considerable procedure in the provision of employee compensation rights in public organization. The study employed three different data collection tools for this study namely questionnaire, interview and the use of secondary data, whereby a total of 200 respondents were involved in this study. The study revealed that among other thing, the kind of compensation package provided in their organization are house allowance, health insurance, promotion, travel allowance, retirement allowance, and annual and maternity. Furthermore, the study revealed that job compensation it lead to the increase of job morale, increase employee’s activeness in the workplace; create better relationship between employers and employees in the workplace. The study concludes that compensable elements most used to determine the value of work to an organization vary widely in their ability to predict the market value of work performed. It’s recommended that compensation practitioners may have to consider the type of organization and the sector in which an organization belongs in order to design an ideal compensation strategy that would be suitable for a particular organization