The Impact of Manpower Development on Efficient Management of Parastatals (a Case Study of Nigeria Railway, Eastern Division Enugu)

In early stages, there is a lot of struggle for profitability. Therefore, drops the profitability of the

Youth unemployment in Nigeria has eaten deep into the agile and intelligent youths who despite the lack of jobs cannot do without activities.

This Research Project Proposal is submitted in part-fulfillment of the degree of BSc (Hons) in Planning and Development

At Tata Motors, Human Resources Management is actively linked to the Corporate Vision and goals. The HR approach of Tata Motors is through Total Employee Development Focus. In Tata Motors, HRD includes a large area of the personnel function. It starts from the very process of human resources planning and ends with detailed drawing up of individual development plans and their follow-up. The management of Tata Motors believes that HRD is one of the most important functions for organizational as well as individual growth and development. It includes long-term, broad-based activities which would also ensure organizational Effectiveness. In short, HRD aims at helping employees to acquire competencies required to perform

Bureaucracy, corruption and nepotism are some of the factors that have made it hard to run businesses in Nigeria. According to Ifemelu's aunt the biggest problem in Nigeria, was not corruption but the many qualified people who were not where they are supposed to be because they were not corrupt (Adichie; 77). This comment applies to the political state of Nigeria, implying that the biggest problem in Nigerian society is nepotism.

Planned employee development should be one of the basic concepts of any organization’s performance management system. This is an attempt to state a broad policy which removes any option about people development by stipulating that developing people is a pillar of whatever system of management the organization espouses. This people development should be planned, not given mere lip service or expected to happen by itself. Adoption of this policy would guard against the simplistic

Nigeria has a population of around 180 million, making it the most populous country in Africa. Nigeria is located in a region with tropical climate and that can grow variety of crops. With their numerous resources and growing technology they have been able to have positive economic advancement. Nigeria has had improvements in five of the ten economic freedoms. This includes Freedom of corruption, labor freedom, and management of government spending ("Nigeria." Economy: Population, GDP, Inflation, Business, Trade, FDI, Corruption.). Nevertheless these large improvements in their economy has not brought human development, where most Nigerians live under the poverty line. This paper will focus on why Nigeria has not been able to use their economic prosperity in the sector of human development, this includes standard of living, health, safety, and basic necessity one needs to live a stable life. We will compare it to the state of Ghana whose economy has also flourished but has been success in human development.

Nigeria is an Agricultural and oil rich nation but characterised by Political instability, corruption, poor

It is necessary for human resource management to have a proper human resource planning. “Human resource planning involves planning that assure a firm’s needs for employees”, says Madura. She also includes that human resource planning consists of three tasks which are forecasting staffing needs, job analysis (Madura, 2007). Recruiting and selecting the right employee is not enough. There is a necessity to provide continuous training and development to the employees to be more productive and efficient. With great training, it enables the employees to be more innovative, creative, motivated and thus increase their working performance. Training can be through various types such as on the job training, off the job training, job rotation and scholarships.

When the newly employed staffs perform efficiently and understood the work methods within the short period of time, then developing training programs for these particular workers become unnecessary. Thus, the newly employed workers have the ability and competencies to learn fast. The effective recruitment and selection could save the training and development budget and the time. In addition, the saved training and development budget can be invested for various development projects of the

and the human resource department the human resource manager is concerned and bothered about the employees satisfaction ,they think that employees are not source but they take them as very important persons to procure desired results ,the best training is given to them .in this way not only ADDECO each and every organisation is associated with theses particular departments which are very essential to develop the company

Human Resource Management involves a wide array of functions that encompasses the time from when an employee enters an organization to the time the employee leaves the organization. The specific activities that are involved in HRM include job design and analysis, recruitment, orientation and placement, development and training of the personnel, employee remuneration, and performance appraisal (Aswathappa, 2007: 5). This paper shall focus on three main activities which are recruitment, training, and personnel development. When it comes to recruitment, it is incumbent upon the Human Resource Manager to bring into the workforce, employees that are both wiling and competent to accomplish specific tasks. The work of recruitment goes hand in

Population can be defined as the number of people living in any defined area at any given time. Hence the population of Nigeria consists of all the people who live in the country at any given time (Dictionary of Economics, 1998; Ojo, 1997). Population however cannot be treated in isolation without a serious consideration for the characteristics (demographic distribution) of the population which is a pre-requisite for an effective and efficient manpower planning which will enhance human resource development and of course

With Reg/No.BA/2007/163, has been duly supervised, approved and found adequate in scope and content for the award of Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration, in the

Manpower Training and Development is a very important aspect of human resources management which must be embarked upon either proactively or reactively to meet any change brought about in the course of time. The rationale behind it is to web the job and the job-holder together to achieve the organizational objectives.