This study examine the effect of compensation management and employee performance in Nigeria organization. The study aim at investigating the influence of performance based compensation, competency-based-compensation and equity based-compensation on employee performance. Relevant conceptual, theoretical and empirical literatures were reviewed. The study was anchored on Human Capital Theory and Expectancy Theory. The study adopt descriptive survey research design. The study was carried out in Anambra State. The population of the study comprises 257 public secondary schools in Anambra State. The sample size for the study consists of 257employees drawn from the population of the study. The sample consists of entire population. The instrument for data collection is a structured questionnaire. The face content validity of the instrument was employee. The instrument was trial-tested on a representative sample of 20 employee randomly selected of Anambra State. In analyzing the data for the null hypotheses, Z-test was be used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Equity based compensation has no negative significance effect on employee performance in Nigeria organization. Competency based compensation has no negative significance effect on employee performance in Nigeria organization. Performance based compensation has no negative significance effect on employee performance in Nigeria organization. Therefore the study conclude that compensation management has significance effect on employee performance in Nigeria organization. The study recommends that every organization should make equity-based compensation as compulsory policy since equity-based compensation are used more extensively in firms for ensuring maximum performance. Every organization should formulate competency-based compensation policy, the only thing standing between the employees and a greater wage is how much they contribute and how well they perform. Management should have Performance-based compensation plans at program at every level of an organization.
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