Application of Due Process in Recruitment and Selection of Personnel into the Federal Civil Service. Part 1

Ani V Anayochukwu,Grace I Anayochukwu

doi:10.22363/2312-8313-2021-8-4-375-385

Ani V Anayochukwu, Grace I Anayochukwu

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https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8313-2021-8-4-375-385

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Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the constraint to the effective application of due process in the recruitment and selection of personnel into the federal civil service. Four objectives and four research questions guided the study. A sampling technique was used in carrying out the work. A total number of three hundred (300) respondents were used for the study. The instruments for data collection were a questionnaire and observation checklist. Three hundred (300) copies of the questionnaire were distributed to the staff of the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC), Abuja and two hundred and seventy-six (276) were returned representing a 92% return rate. The frequency table and Mean were the statistical measures employed for the data analysis. The findings revealed that there were no strategies or methods of recruitment and selection of staff into the federal civil service. However, the findings also revealed that practices such as political interference and corruption during recruitment and selection in federal civil service tend to undermine the principle of due process. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the federal civil service commission should formulate sound policies and practices that will minimize the degree of politicization and corruption in the recruitment and selection of staff into the federal civil service; make use of modern sources and techniques of recruitment and selection such as, E-recruitment process and Information Communication Technology (ICT)-based selection resources as their source of recruitment and selection; and develop strategies or methods that will result in the effective application of due process in their recruitment and selection exercises.

Highlights

Every human organization exists to accomplish certain goals and objectives it set for itself in terms of services and has to be cautious about the quality of human resources it employs through the processes of recruitment and selection
In Nigerian public service, the responsibility for recruiting personnel into the civil service is that of an independent commission, the federal civil service commission (FCSC), established as far back as 1954
The federal civil service commission comprises of a chairman and about fifteen other commissioners who shall in the opinion of the president be persons of unquestionable integrity and sound judgment (1999 constitution, 3rd schedule part 1 (109,6)) [1]

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Introduction

Every human organization exists to accomplish certain goals and objectives it set for itself in terms of services and has to be cautious about the quality of human resources it employs through the processes of recruitment and selection. С. 375–385 principal officers of the party privilege to nominate people for appointment as commissioners for the commission These commissioners, in an attempt to secure their position as well as gain undue favor from the president and members of his cabinet, (the commissioners) deliberately aid and abate the incursion of politics into the recruitment and selection exercises. There have been some cases where the commissioners give express orders to the personnel in charge of recruitment and selection to recruit their preferred candidates Related to this are some of the corrupt officials of the commission who see the exercise (recruitment and selection) as an opportunity to make money and hereby resorting to collecting bribes from the applicants “no bribe no employment”. (iv) To what extent does Nigeria civil service commission apply the due process in recruitment and selection processes?

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