1.0 Introduction
1.1 Background Of The Study
Staff recruitment is the bed rock and foundation of any organization. This is because their success or efficiency in service delivery depends on the quality of its work force who was recruited. Staff recruitment policies and procedures sets out, as far as possible that the best people are recruited on merit and that recruitment process is free from bias and discrimination.
Recruitment has been defined in various ways by various scholars. These definitions depends on the perspective of the author. According to Flippo (1976:1,2,3) it is the process of searching for prospective employees and stimulating them ot apply for jobs in an organization. It often turned positive because its objective is to increase selection ratio that is the number of applicant per job opening. An organization need to altract more candidates in other to increase selection ratio so as to select the most suitable out of all the candidates available . beach (1980:210) recognized recruitment as the development and maintenance of adequate manpower sources. It involves the creation of a pool of available labour from which an organization can draw whenever it requires additional personnel.
Igbodi (1990) extends this by seeing it as seeking and attracting prospective employees from which qualified candidates for the job can be selected. Ofoegbu (1985:2) says it is a mean of securing the right man for the right job. From the above it is obvious that recruitment is concerned with developing a pool of job candidate in line with the personnel plan and policies.
1.2 Statement Of The Problem
The researcher tries to point out those problems as sociated with staff recruitment of national population commission. Staff recruitment in the federal civil service has been a controversial issue in this country. This is because of high rate of unemployment, as a result certain recruitment processes, policies and recruitment problems have been abused.
The federal civil services in particular the national population commission has been faced with the problem of recruitment starts favouring family members or friends or known persons often with no regards to the persons suitability for the job.
Staff recruitment procedures of federal civil services have been faced with political interference, who is to be recruited.
The federal character has brought inverse lobbing in the federal civil service. Due to this, proper recruitment procedures and policies are not followed.
Recruitment in national population commission is not based on merit.
1.3 Objective Of The Study
The goal of recruitment policies and procedures is to regulate the activities of recruitment and to ensure that right people are recruitment. To achieve these objectives, the following have be pursued.
- to review the existing policies of national population commission.
- to find out the procedures used by national population commission.
- to know if recruitment is based on merit.
- to identify the problems associated with recruitment in national population commission.
Research Question
The researcher questions for this study include:
- what are the recruitment policies of the national population commission
- what are the recruitment procedures of the national population commission?
- 3. what are the problems associated with staff recruitment in national population commission
- is recruitment carried out based on merit?
1.4 Statement Of The Hypothesis
the following hypothesis have been formulated to guide the researcher’s effort, they include the following:
- HO: national population commission does not have recruitment policies.
H1: national population commission has recruitment policies. - HO: national population commission does not follow recruitment procedures.
H!: national population commission follows recruitment procedure.
1.5 Significant Of The Study
This research work will help in the following when completed.
- it will expose the problems associated with staff recruitment policy.
- it will equally create awareness among the staff of national population, as it will help them have a better understanding between them and management on recruitment issues.
- it will expose the inadequacies of recruitment polices.
- the research work will help the study and ordinary reader as it will provide an insight on various aspect of recruitment.
1.7 Scope Of The Study
The study in delimited to national population commission.
1.8 Limitation Of The Study
- The fear of infringing the act of secrecy makes a civil servant afraid of giving out information to the researcher especially when it concerns recruitment policies and procedures.
- poor altitude of respondents to questionnaire and financial barrier were limitations to the study.
- factor is another limiting factors. For a research work of this nature to be carried out along side with other academic activities like lecture and assignment time becomes alimenting factor.
1.9 Definition Of Terms
The following operational terms have been defined for clarity.
Recruitment:
It is the process of filling vacancies by searching and appointment of applications into establishment.
Manpower:
This is the number of people available for work.
Federal Character:
It is a doctrine or principle which ensures equal representation.
Overstaffing:
This is when an organization employ many staff in a particular department which may result to some staff having no office space provided for them.
Balance Staffing:
This is when the total number of staff employed in equal to the total job available.
Recruitment Process:
This maybe selective or per − selective through choosing among various sources of supply as well as the decision on which candidate should be permitted to go through subsequent screening procedures
