FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT. (A case study of Enugu North Local government)
ABSTRACT
The success of any enterprise depends largely on the effectiveness of its human resources in their work. The need for reappraising the manpower training and development in our organization is apparent. Therefore this research work tried to identify the problems affecting human resources development with a view to developing means for improving effectiveness in human resource management the statement of the problem the introduction limitation, significance and objective of the study were stated.
A review of related literature was made in the research to know the opinion of different authors concerning human resources
This study was carried out throughout the use survey research method which involved the collection of data manly by the use of questionnaires the questionnaire which was developed from the research questions was designed to elicit information regarding the subject matter.
It was complemented with interviews and with the aid of simple random sampling
The analysis of data shows that poor recruitment motivation industrial relation machine and equipment leadership style affect human resource develop
METHODOLOGY
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
CHAPETR FIVE
Recommendation
Appendixes
Letter and questionnaire
Bibliography
CHAPETR ONE
INTRODUCTION
The growth of any organizaiton depends upon the development and utilization of people in it. The efficiency of an organization whether private or be it public depends to a large extent on how effectively human resource are utilized. For any organization to attain its desired objective it must seek and obtain the willing co-operaiton of the people it has to work with
Management must work, employ and therefore should develop programmes and policies that will enable them to obtain the best results from the employees
Organizations are being forced to operate in an increasingly completive environment and this places emphasis on the role of management in making the most effective use of human resource in order to meet its objectives.
In the search for organizational effectiveness there is an increasing range of specialized skills to help line managers whether in business public administration or other organizations. In struggling to achieve objectives of the organization there are a number of “tools” which can help the managers in the execution of work and activities which have to be undertaken in forecasting and planning organizing decision making and control many of these tools will help to solve the problems affecting human resource development which arises due to complexities in modern business.
However, there are problem affecting human resources development in Enugu North, which discourages an employee from contributing his maximum human potentials, which are necessary to make for higher productivity profitability and growth.
Personnel management has been defined several ways. It is the field of study that encircles all the activities that are performed form the identification of human resources for employment to the full utilization of people and planning for their retirement the personnel management function involved recruiting selecting hiring developing participation communication motivation and remunerating employees are attained.
The field of management poses many problems and these problems affect human resources development the problem to be discussed in this research includes inadequate selection, recruitment placement training motivation industrial relation communication and other environmental factors that affect human resources development, in the following six departments of Enugu Local Government namely works personnel health 80hal welfare account and finance departments.
For the most efficient possible use of worker’s skill management must be able to decide how when and where the service of each individual are to used.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The problem of this study is to investigate the inhibiting factors affecting the utilization of human resources development in the organizaiton
Human resources development in any business organization has some problems, which proceed from either internal or external factors. The problems could be that of ignorance that is unaware of the need or important of human resources development in an organization as said by beach.
Some of the prevailing socioeconomic problems of the county such as constant labour unrest using unemployment high rate of crimes poor standard of living and even inflation can be attributed to poor labour management relations in most organization.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the problem affectively human resources development in Enugu North can be improved with a view to recommending solutions that will enhance better employer and employee relationship.
This research work become improtant due to the activities of some organizations who because of the high rate of unemployment in the country think that they can easily get an employee from the thousands of employed whether they are qualified or not this is a misconception because they fail to realize the importance of employing the right caliber of people to fit job
The research questions for this study are:
1. Human resources is the totality of the human element involved in production and other activities geared towards achieving the goals of an organization. It includes the special skill and strength of work force. Human the implications and complications of human resources development so as encourage those organization with such programmes to continue and those without to embark on the programmes.
Finally employees and management of Enugu North Local government will find this study of great use. The work could also serve as a secondary data to future work that could be related to the study.
There are as always some difficulties involved in producing a work especially of this nature.
In producing this research project the researcher has some problems initially the researcher had financial problems which is the most important thing to consider ever before the research taken off. The writer encountered this problem during the production and distribution of the questionnaires when I was faced with transportation difficulties.
1.Again during the collection of data and interviews some of the employee and their officer failed to realize correct information needed for the analysis some of their workers refused to take the questionnaire and were unwilling to answer the questions that were given to them. Most of their worker consulted demanded some payment for the questionnaires distributed and wanted to know how much the resources can also be referred to as the manpower of an organization
2. DEVELOPMENT
Development in general refers to an increase in the standard of a particular sphere of life. Human resources development can be therefore be said to be the increase in the productivity potential of the work force of an organization for goal maximization and cost minimization
3. TRAINING
Give teaching and practice to somebody or something in order to bring a desired standard of behavior efficiency or physical condition.
4. MOTIVATION FACTOR
It is term used to qualify the satisfaction, which an employee derives from the job he does such as status
5. PRODUCTIVITY
A measurement of the efficiency of production a ration of output to input
6. MANPOWER
All employees in a organization from the chief executive officer down to the cleaner
REFERENCE
1. Likert Rensis The Human Organization, its Management and Value, Mc
Graw- Hill Book Coy New York (1967) P.I
2. Nwachukwu Ike “Give Us Trade Union Education Business Times
Nov.9, 1987 P.16
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