Ekwealor, Ferdinand Ekwealor
Department of Public Administration, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra state, Nigeria
Corresponding Author’s email: orjiakor4god@gmail.com
Abstract
The human component of an organization is vital for its survival and development. It is these employees that generate other resources and turn them into products, render the necessary services for the attainment of organizational goals. Any wrong manpower planning is liable to ground the activities of the enterprise. This study therefore examined human resource with emphasis on the basic issues to be considered as a manpower planner while planning for an organization. Secondary source of data was utilized. The study examined the following issues: conceptual definition of human resource and manpower planning; skills of human resource, objectives of manpower planning; manpower planning process and issues to be considered while planning for organization’s manpower. The study concluded that no organization can rise above the technical competence of its personnel and therefore recommended inter alia; there should be a rational and systematic personnel selection programme; searching for employees with the right skills, non-politicization of recruitment, adequate staff motivation, regular training and development of staff to form one of the priorities of human resource managers, high rate of employees turnover to be checked and adequate fund made available to meet up with right personnel
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