Vroom's Expectancy Theory and its Application in Management of Incentives Scheme in Adamawa Plastic Company, Yola, Nigeria

Incentive can be a very important tool for motivation in organizations because it stimulates interest or zeal in the employee for better performance. But the problems is how these incentives should be implemented and managed in an organization to guarantee that both the objectives of the employees and that of the organization were tremendously meet up. The objective of this study is to investigate the application of Vroom's expectancy theory in the management of incentives scheme in Adamawa Plastic Company, Yola. The survey research approach was used for the study. The population of the study was made up of one hundred 100 workers. The sample sizes consist of thirty 30 staff conveniently selected. Structured questionnaire design on five point Likert scale with options ranging from strongly disagrees 1 to strongly agree 5 was used for the study. The result signifies that Adamawa Plastic Company implement incentives plan they also employed both financial and non financial incentives schemes in motivating their employees. Based on the findings the study recommends that while making decisions on incentives schemes, management should engage the service or contributions of employees' i.e. participative decision making. Employees should have the clear understanding of the relationship between their efforts and reward to avoid conflicts. Stephen Pembi "Vroom's Expectancy Theory and its Application in Management of Incentives Scheme in Adamawa Plastic Company, Yola, Nigeria" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd25278.pd