The impact of human resource management on organizational productivity

Thesis Overview

<p> <b></b></p><p><b><b>introduction</b></b></p><p><b><b></b></b></p><b><b><p>1.1 &nbsp; <b>background<br>of the study</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>the<br>history of planning is old as man himself planning had started from the ancient<br>era during the primitive period when there were no industries or firms.<br>planning is a basic function of management thus therefore means that planning<br>pervades all the functional area of management which include personnel,<br>production, research and development, marketing and finance.</p><p>through<br>planning organization goals and objective are determined; the resources<br>available must be strategies to achieve the goals and objectives. planning<br>provide answers to what? how? when? and their relationship to organization<br>activities.</p><p>in<br>personnel management function, human resources panel is a basic function. human<br>resources planning is sometime referred to as workforce planning, which is<br>defined as the process of the right number of qualified people into the right<br>job at the right time. to ensure adequate workforce in the organization,<br>management must plan properly, proper planning in this respect involves<br>accurate projection of the future, taking inventory of existing workforce,<br>comparing the force with the existing one and take corrective measure.</p><p>productivity<br>means rate of output, degree of result and success which is directly related to<br>profitability and turnover. this research study concentrates on the possible<br>impact of human resources planning on workers productivity.</p><p>the<br>human resources means the human that are in the organization. without them<br>there cannot be production. so there is need for the organization to plan well<br>for its human resource. proper planning enhances the productivity of an<br>organization. how?</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>planning helps to resolve problem of<br>shortage of staff in organization</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>it also helps in determining and<br>planning whatever capital, material, equipment and personnel required in an<br>organization in order to achieve organization objectives</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>human resource management defining the<br>duties and responsibilities of the personnel employed and determining the<br>manner in which their activities are to be interrelated</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>human resource use planning to assess<br>external forces to help the firm deal with environmental uncertainty by<br>mobilizing scare or limited resources to neutralize potential threats.</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>planning make control possible, which<br>is, comparing actual outcome with performance standards and taking corrective<br>action if variance exists</p><p>· &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>human resource management management<br>development by helping managers to take proactive role in moving the<br>organization toward a future desired state.</p><p>lastly,<br>human resource management function include staffing, that is acquiring<br>qualified and appropriate number of workers for an organization, to determining<br>and acquiring other resources and proper allocation of these resources. in<br>addition, co-ordination of activities of all members and parts of an<br>organization is another major purpose of human resource management in order to<br>boost production.</p><p>1.2 &nbsp; <b>statement<br>of the problem</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>one<br>of the most serious problems facing total Nigeria is the acute shortage of<br>qualified resources. the problem of inadequate skilled manpower in Nigeria<br>limited sector could be traced to a number of factors which include the<br>colonial administrative policies which gave the local population more<br>opportunity to develop. some of the problem faced by the human resources<br>planners is as follows: </p><p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>management of fund, funds kept for the<br>proper planning management of the organization is always converted to their<br>private pocket by the top management.</p><p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>as a result of lack of motivation<br>money of our expertise in Nigeria have gone to a board where they will be paid<br>and live in a comfortable house with all kinds of fringe benefits</p><p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>the rate of labour turnover is increasing<br>because of lack of facilities in our higher institutions, irrelevance of the<br>educational curriculum to the need of the economic</p><p>1.3 &nbsp; <b>objective<br>of the study</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>this<br>study is of the view that human resources is very important factor in the<br>production, management and government as a whole. human resources will not be<br>of any value if it is not productive. therefore, to identify factor which<br>hamper the effective and efficient operation of total Nigeria plc, the<br>management of total Nigeria plc &nbsp;must strategize using the all resources<br>available in their care to make sure that their objective is achieved at the<br>long run. in order to guide the study, the following objectives are put<br>forward:</p><p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to determine how employees are being<br>compensated as well as the fringe benefit received</p><p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to ascertain whether the service<br>rendering to customer are of optimum quality</p><p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to find out the actual problem<br>affecting the management of sonal system association business management<br>limited.</p><p>4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to find out the level of the labour<br>turnover and how it affect on the productivity in the organization</p><p>5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to see how human resources planning<br>has change the level of production capacity in the total Nigeria plc </p><p>1.4 &nbsp; <b>significance<br>of the study</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>this<br>study is necessitated by the urge and the need for the research, reader and<br>organizations in general to understand the advantages of implementation of<br>human resources on productivity stem that will serve as tool for achieving<br>higher organization productivity. the following are the significance of study<br>to the researcher:</p><p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to serve as guide to corporate<br>individuals, organization and student alike in furtherance to their research on<br>the subject matter</p><p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to help government in the<br>determination of how productive is both public and private sector of the<br>economy</p><p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>to serve as a reference materials for<br>students who will wish to conduct similar studies on this topic.</p><p>1.5 &nbsp; <b>research<br>questions</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>1. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>what is the nature of human resources<br>in organization?</p><p>2. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>is human resource management relevant<br>to organizational productivity?</p><p>3. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>is there any relationship between<br>productivity and organization human resource in total Nigeria plc?</p><p>4. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>what are the criteria and conditions<br>for impact of human resources organization?</p><p>5. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br>in what ways does the problem observed<br>can be tackled?</p><p><b>1.6.statement of &nbsp;hypothesis</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>h0:<br>there is no impact of human resource management on organizational productivity.</p><p>h1:<br>there is an impact of human resource management on organizational productivity.</p><p>1.7 &nbsp; <b>scope<br>of the study</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>the<br>study is restricted to the impact of human resource in productivity in total<br>Nigeria plc Lagos as source of data and<br>it will cover period from 2005 to 2010.</p><p>1.8 &nbsp; <b>limitation<br>of the study</b></p><p><b></b></p><b><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; the study was with constrained, some of<br>these constraints are:</p><p>– &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br><b><i>finance: </i></b>it<br>was no doubt a g7reat limited of factors for this project considering the world<br>wide economic recession and the particular financial squeeze within the<br>country. all these combined together or bear on me.</p><p>– &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br><b><i>time limit:</i></b><br>there is also limited amount of time in the course of investigation. this based<br>in the fact that the researcher will have other task to perform, these include<br>often assignment in the school going for lecturer, preparation for test,<br>examination and other to maintained but few.</p><p>the school authority imposed a time limit in the<br>submission of the complete work. base on the submission of the completed work.<br>base on these the project will cover those areas that are very crucial to the<br>problems under investigation.</p><p>– &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <b><i>lack<br>of trust: </i></b>another limitation is that i was not permitted to make use of<br>certain documents for security purpose because the organization would not like<br>its secret to be leakage out despite the backup letter given by the project<br>coordinator.</p></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br> <br><p></p>