Nuhu Mohammed , Aishatu Mohammed Lawan Yusuf Salami and Rayyan Yusuf
Volume 9 Issue 2
The study examined bonus scheme as a catalyst for motivating employee performance at Federal Teaching Hospital (FTHG) Gombe, Gombe State-Nigeria. It aimed at assessing the influence of bonus scheme on the hospital in motivating employee performance. 399 respondents sampled in the study and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was employed in analyzing the correlation between bonus scheme and employee job performance at the hospital It was however found that there is significant relationship between bonus scheme and the employees performance due to motivational efforts of the management towards employees’ productivity as well as significant relationship between bonus scheme used by the leadership of the hospital on employees and hospital productivity. It is therefore recommends that the management should avoid the misuse of bonus scheme as a long term strategy, give additional allowances to employees and by placing more emphasis on developmental policies. Keywords: Hospital, Employees, Performance, Bonus, Scheme and Federal