A STUDY ON HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

A STUDY ON HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
 
ABSTRACT
The success of any  organization largely depends on the effectiveness of its human resources. The need for reappraising the human resources training and development in our organization is apparent. To this extent, this research work tried to identify the problems associated with human resources development with a view to developing means for improving effectiveness and efficiency in human resources management. To deal with this task, there was a background study, statement of problem, purpose of the study and the significant of the study were all stated. A review of related literature was carried out to uncover the trend of event concerning human resources development. As a means of gathering data, a structured and close-ended questionnaire was designed, validated, reproduced and administered on the sample of civil servants. These were all retrieved by the researcher after completion by the respondents. By and large, it was discovered among others, that there are training and development needs in other to replace retiring servants and even to cope with technological development-automation. There are also need to acquiring more skills on communication and human relation, the need to acquire administrative skills among others. It was also discovered that inadequate financial allocation constitute a cog on the wheel of these development efforts. Favoritism in selecting trainees and inability to identify the training/development need on which staff have interest also constitute a problem. At last it was recommended, that more financial allocation should be give to the local government to enable it execute its training/development programmes. Delegation of authority, job rotation, one the job training among others were the various method of training/development recommended.
 
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INTRODUCTION
1.1     BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The problem of human resource development and productivity in Nigeria civil service has become very severe such that the civil service is at the point of collapse due to challenges of civil service delivery, over centralization amongst others. To Collins and Chan (2009) in addition to fixing many such other key problems of development, Nigeria state has an urgent problem of disposing her workforce to cope with the demands of the society.
The origin, structure and performance of the civil service dates back to the 20th century, with the introduction of the British colonial rule in Nigeria. By 1990, a decentralized colonial service with headquarters in each of the protectorate was established. By 1904, the colony of Lagos state was amalgamated with the protectorate of Southern Nigeria. This was followed by the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorate in 1914 bringing into existence a country called Nigeria.
By 1914, there were two civil services in the two Nigeria’s (Northern and Southern) headed by a Governor-general in the person of Lord Lugard and two lieutenant Governors each for the North and South respectively, while an administrator was in charge of Lagos. The British imposed a unified civil service in Nigeria, which was mainly concerned with the maintenance of law and order and the mobilization of enough local resources in order to ensure their administration was self sufficient.
According to Ciroma (1988) The Nigerian civil service began as a force of occupation designed to facilitate colonial rule and the exploitation of land and its people for the benefit of the colonial masters. The 2nd World War and the attendant worldwide depression left the civil service hopelessly depleted as the civil service played major role of being an essential tool and veritable source of men and material of the allied war efforts.
In 1936, the Walayns committee recommended a new policy of staffing the public service by indigenes and for the first time the administrative service which was the cream of colonial services was thrown open to Nigerians. The Nigerianization scheme went a stage further with the appointment of the foot commission of 1948, the commission observed that the training and recruitment of Nigerians for senior post