STAFF RECRUITMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES IN THE FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE (A CASE STUDY OF NATIONAL POPULATION COMMISSION)

Abstract

Recruitment is the process of seeking and attracting  prospective employee for the purpose of filling vacant position in an establishment. The study of recruitment policies and procedures in federal civil service become necessary when one observes the unconventional processes certain organizations adopt and the tension generated by recruitment eve. Both in private and public sector of Nigeria state. This work therefore set out whether recruitment in national population commission in particular in dependent on merit. It also identified the problems associated with recruitment and assesses the procedures adopted in recruiting workers in national population commission in particulars and federal civil service in general. To discover the trend of events in the scene and to uncover gaps in knowledge, a review of  literature was carried out. As a method of gathering data, a structured and close ended questionnaire was  formulated, validated and administrated on a sample of 80 staff of national population commission, from level 01 – 17 these were all retrieved and analyzed using simple percentage. It was discovered that recruitment in national population commission was not based on merit it was equally  discovered that the policies and procedures are good but its unplementation has much to be desired, as this was characterized by political interference and nepotism. It was recommended, inter allia federal character commission should be dissolved with quota system and that any recruitment that does not conform to the laid down procedures should be.

CHAPTER ONE

• INTRODUCTION
• 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.

• 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.

• OBJECTIVE  OF THE STUDY