Hike in salary fails to boost government employees’ moral

In the budget for the current fiscal year, the government has hiked salary of civil servants by 21.95 per cent to boost their moral and efficiency, but a survey revealed that hike in salary never boosted their moral.
"There is no direct relation between salary hike and employees' moral," according to the research 'Relation between Employees moral and organisation' conducted by the Revenue Administration Training Centre, a government agency.
Employee satisfaction is a measure of how happy workers are with their job and working environment. Keeping morale high among workers can be of tremendous benefit as happy workers will be more likely to be more productive and stay loyal to the institutions.
However, government employees are neither loyal nor happy. "They do not encourage their children, relatives and young graduates to enter the government service," said senior training officer Bashu Sharma, who was part of the research.
The government employees do not trust their own organisations and feel insecure all the time, the research revealed attributing to political bickering, unionism, negative feeling in the working atmosphere, rampant corruption, and exposure to the side and outside society as the causes for their feeling inferior.
"The officer level and above are more frustrated than the lower levels," the report stated, adding that more talented employees are more frustrated compared to average ones.
"In the last one decade, the young talented graduates have not shown any interest to join government services that has also raised question over the Public Service Commission's exam pattern too,” revealed the survey that was carried out in and outside the Valley among 1,000 government officials. “Of which 50 per cent were from the Valley and another 50 per cent from out of the Valley.”
A former senior bureaucrat also agreed that the salary is never a motivating factor for the government employees. "It is the recognition, prestige and power that attract the people towards government job," said former finance secretary Rameshwor Prasad Khanal. The younger, talented graduates is yet to realise it,” he said, adding that lack of government's marketing and inferiority complex among the higher level government employees also dispelled the new generation from entering the cvil service.
The ministries like Finance Ministry and Foreign Ministry has enough places for talented young graduates for career, Khanal said