Manpower Development Research Articles

A Review of Development Policies Implementation in Nigeria

Development is critical and very essential to the substance and positive growth of any nation. A country is classified as develop when she is able to provide qualitative effort for her citizenry in terms of industrial development, manpower development and sustainable development with respect to her conservative nature to the biodiversity etc. Nigeria in the last 53 years has been struggling with the problems of development in spite of huge human, material and natural resources in her possession. This article examines the problems bedevilling Nigeria’s development, which includes monumental sorption, lack of good governance, poor policy implementation and mono economic base of the nation as well as strategies for achieving sustainable development in Nigeria. The paper adopted secondary data as sources of information. It observe among other things that diligent implementation of developmental plans, commitment on the part of the leaders, policies implementation and enforcement, absences of corrupt leadership and the presence of leaders with high regard for scientific research and industrialization are necessary and vital requirement for the achievement of sustainable development in Nigeria.

STAFF TRAINING AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AS PARAMETERS FOR PERSONAL EFFICIENCY IN THE CIVIL SERVICES: A CASE STUDY OF MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, OYO STATE, NIGERIA.

Despite the recognition of the importance of training by management experts and government as expressed in white papers on various reforms in Nigeria, the experience of manpower training and development in the Nigeria public service has been more of ruse and waste which informed this study which examined the perception and relevance of influence of training and manpower development on employee performance, using civil servants in Oyo State, Nigeria as reference. Descriptive research design was adopted and data was gathered from 50 respondents. Simple frequencies and percentages were utilized to analyze the gathered data. Findings revealed that 49.8% of those that had training and those exposed to manpower development had high job performance as against 21.2% for their counterparts with no training and manpower development. Also, it was discovered that the primary aim of training and manpower development was rather to meet statutory requirements (60%), as against improvement on the job (31.2%) and has policy implications for training and manpower development relevant to organizational need or goal to be provided to employees. Based on the findings, policy implications suggest that, training and manpower development relevant to organizational goals should be provided to employees and recipients provided with an enabling environment to perform tasks (the enabling environment includes opportunity to put into practice the new skill and competence they acquired; commensurate monetary reward to, perhaps, compensate them for the rigors experienced in acquiring the new skill and competence. In conclusion, this report has underscored that the aim of training and manpower development might not directly gear towards job performance. Further study is required to ascertain the conditions within which training and manpower development could improve job performance amongst civil servant

Analysis of the Determinants of Public Education Expenditures in the Philippines

This study examines the values, trends, and variables that determine the public education expenditures of the Philippines from 1990 to 2019. The researchers used the following variables: Public Education, Culture, and Manpower Development Expenditure in Millions, Tax Revenue in % share GDP, Total Population in Millions, and Real Gross Domestic Product Per Capita, to pave the way for a coherent understanding of the determinants of public education expenditure and theories used to build up this economic construct. The study utilized a multivariate Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis needed for the variables, along with statistical measures to assess the significance of the model. Which includes the following: the values of the t-test and f-stat in their respective p valued forms for the significance of the economic model, tests for serial correlation through the Durbin-Watson test and Breusch-Godfrey test, a test for multicollinearity through Variance Inflation Factor, a test for heteroscedasticity through Goldfeld-Quandt test and White's Heteroscedasticity test, testing for specification errors will be done through Ramsey's RESET test, and test for normality will be through a graphical method Histogram. The key findings of this study suggest that the variables; economic growth, tax, and population growth show signs of positive relationship and negation with the dependent variable education expenditure.

A Theoretical Discourse of Substance Abuse and Security Threat among Nigerian Youths; Current Literatures and Interrogations

The ever increasing menace associated with substance or illegal drug consumption among the Nigerian youth is endemic and it has posed as serious challenges and threats toward achieving progressive growth and development on the part of the families, community members, medical practitioners, social workers and other researched area throughout the world. Several publications articulated claim that youths are the future leaders of tomorrow due to their unique characteristics. Unfortunately when denied access to showcase their talents, the situation result to antisocial behaviour (trauma, dependency, larceny,/thefts, poor manpower development among others) that may hampered human and societal development Strain theory, Rational Choice theory and Structural Functionalism were adopted. Content analysis method was adopted in reviewing various publications from Jstor, Scopus, PDF, and Scholarly Google among others. The consequence of increase in security issues can be related to several factors which include illicit drug usage, poor parenting style, peer pressure, poor role modelling. On these grounds, the following recommendations were make- the parent should by all means socialized their children in the way of the Lord so that they will not depart from it, de-associate themselves from negative or bad company as friends or role model, the government at all levels should create recreation, sports centres for the youths to channel their youthful energy, more of public awareness should be carried out in various communities to awake the moral consciousness of the youths concerning negative consequences associated with illicit drug intake

Harvest of Bishops in Nigeria Anglicanism: Diocese of Niger Delta North Experience, 1996-2021

Church growth can be internal, extension, and cross-cultural. Three critical areas to measure the viability of an ecclesiastical area are manpower, finance, and infrastructure. The Anglican diocese of Niger Delta North (DNDN) was inaugurated May 16, 1996 as the 53rd diocese in Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) with focus on missions and evangelism. To what extent has DNDN demonstrated viability especially in manpower development within twenty five years (1996-2021) of her mission work? The historical and descriptive methods were applied to unravel the task of this research. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. The study revealed that Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has harvested for the expansion of the work of God, thirteen bishops from DNDN within twenty-five years of her mission enterprise. Three were to shepherd the diocese, five lead extension dioceses which were birthed by DNDN, and another five for cross-cultural dioceses. Among these, two have been elevated to the apex ecclesiastical leadership position of an Archbishop. Thus, DNDN is a good ground for harvesting leaders for missions and evangelism in Nigeria and beyond. Downsizing DNDN rather than weaken her viability as some had feared, has increased her fruitfulness, growth and relevance to the community. These developments can be sustained and expanded through systematic teachings and intentional discipleship. Partnership with the extension and cross-cultural bishops and their dioceses are needed in church planting, human and material development. Further study on the inter-relationship between these dioceses will enrich Nigerian ecclesiastical history.

Electrical Measurement and Control Skills for Manpower Development in Nigeria

The study was conducted to ascertain the electrical measurement and control skills needed for manpower development in Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique was used in the study whose sample is composed of 82 subjects (24 electrical graduates and 58 supervisors). One research question guided the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire by the researchers titled ‘Electrical Measurement and Control Skills for Development Questionnaire (EMCSDQ)’. EMCSDQ was designed on a 5-point Likert Scale. Three experts validated the instrument whose reliability was ascertained via Cronbach’s Alpha which yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.83. A total of 89 copies of the questionnaire were administered to the respondents by the researchers and one other research assistant. From the total questionnaire distributed, only 82 (representing 92.1%) was recovered and used for data analysis. Mean was used to answer the research question and standard deviation was used determine the closeness and homogeneity in the responses of the respondents. The finding of the study revealed that electrical measurement and control skills of instrument calibration, system servicing, troubleshooting and maintenance, electronic system simulation among others are needed for manpower development. Consequently, it was recommended among others that the government and polytechnic administrators should ensure adequate provision of training facilities in polytechnics workshops and laboratories; effective students industrial work experience scheme (SIWES); engage experienced lecturers and instructors in polytechnics for quality manpower development of graduates.

Pengaruh Besaran Perekonomian, Tingkat Upah dan Inflasi Terhadap Kesempatan Kerja di Provinsi Jawa Timur Tahun 2014-2018

Labor is the driving force of the wheels of development. The number and composition of the workforce will continue to change along with the demographic process. Workers are residents with a minimum age limit of 15 years without a maximum age limit. Manpower development has many dimensions and is interrelated. The main problem in the development of the national manpower policy is the achievement of full employment and the improvement of the living structure of the community.
 The aim of this research is that the government is expected to focus more on developments (GRDP), especially in the manufacturing sector, which has a high rate of employment.
 The data used in this study is secondary data obtained from BPS and browsing internet websites as a support. While the method used in this research is panel data regression analysis method with REM method with the help of Eviews 9 software.
 The results of this study indicate that the GRDP variable (X1) has a significant and positive effect on TPAK, the Minimum Wage variable (X2) has a significant and negative effect. against TPAK. Employment opportunities in Java are influenced by 99.6% by HDI, GRDP, UMP and inflation while the remaining 0.4% is influenced by other factors.

Manpower Planning and Organizational Effectiveness in Akwa Ibom State University

Manpower planning or Human Resource planning constitutes very important component and resource base of any organization, be it private or public sector organization. It is against this backdrop that this study identified mismatch of employee with works and lack of requisite training and development as well as proper forecast and projection on manpower needs of organization with environmental realities as problems in order to examine the impact of manpower planning challenges on organizational effectiveness of Akwa Ibom State University. The study adopted a descriptive survey design methodology. Both primary and secondary sources instrumentation was used to collect data for the study. The population of the study was 1,225 comprised of both academic and non-academic staff of Akwa Ibom State University and the sample size of 302 was adopted. The Taro Yamane techniques coupled with regression, correlation analysis was used to test hypotheses with the aid of statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS). The finding of the study revealed that there is significant positive effect of staff mix utilization on the productivity of the Akwa Ibom State University. On the other hand, significant negative effect was shown on work life balance both on the climate of the university and that of motivation/incentive on efficiency and service delivery of the staff of the University. It is the recommendation of the study that training and retraining of staff of Akwa Ibom State University should be targeted towards equipping them with specific knowledge and skills to enhance their efficiency and productivity. The manpower development programme of Akwa Ibom State University should be strengthened and made continuous to meet the contemporary demands of staff output, sustainable motivated packages to boost performance and service delivery.

Manpower Training and Development in Nigeria Public Organisations: A Study of Abia State Civil Service.

Manpower training and development is essential to the success and productivity of every organization. Although technology and the internet have enabled global collaboration and competition, employees are still the organization’s competitive advantage. Manpower training and development enables employees to develop skills and competence necessary to enhance bottom-line results for their organizations.

STATUS OF FLORICULTURE SECTOR IN NEPAL

Flowers are adorable creations of the god useful for all occasions from birth to death of human life. Thus, the tendency of people to accept flower on all occasion make it a great potential sector to contribute largely to the national GDP. The floriculture business is increasing 6-9% yearly over the last 20 years. About 20% cut flower, 60% ornamental plants, 90% seeds, and 20% as a whole floral product demands is fulfilled by imports with 12-15% increasing demand annually. Among them, only 14 % of farmers are contacted in extension and 31% received training regarding production, marketing promotion and linkage, entrepreneurship development, and leadership development. 80% share of floriculture export is occupied by propagation material, especially to India, and importing live plants and cut flowers majorly from India i.e., 38.40%. This is due to weak accessibility of information on technology and technical experts, low price export and high price import, weak export marketing management, promotion, and country singularized export. Policy for investment guarantee, import substitution, and export promotion; infrastructure development for wholesale markets, cold storage, refrigerated van, and collection center; package program for irrigation, greenhouse, transport, packaging, manpower development, and seeds; research and development for local spices, manpower development, production location, diseases, and pests, marking network, etc. are the essential need of floriculture sector development in Nepal.

Empirical Assessment of Public Expenditure on Education and Manpower Development in Nigeria

Poor funding of the education sector and low school enrollment in Nigeria has been affecting the manpower development of the citizen. This study is an empirical assessment of public expenditure on education and manpower development in Nigeria for the period of 30 years (1990-2019). Secondary source and time series data were used and the variables such as; human development index, public capital expenditure on education, public recurrent expenditure on education, primary school enrollment, secondary school enrollment and tertiary school enrollment were employed for the study. The data were sourced from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletin of 2019 and World Bank Database. Data was analyzed using Ordinary Linear Square (OLS) techniques with the aid of E-views version 09. The various analyses that were used are unit root and regression. The findings revealed that public recurrent expenditure on education (PREE), primary school enrollment (PSE), and tertiary school enrollment (TSE) are statistically significant on the Human development index (HDI) while public capital expenditure on education (PCEE) and secondary school enrollment (SSE) are not statistically significant on the Human development index (HDI). It was concluded that if public expenditure on education if managed will improve manpower development in Nigeria. The study recommended that government should create awareness about school enrollment especially at primary

Exploring Urban Governance in Ethiopia: Institutional Principles of Non-state Actors’ Engagement

The purpose of this article is to look in to the institutional principles that encourage non-state actors (NSAs’) to participate in urban infrastructure and services. This article uses a qualitative research approach to achieve the purpose of the research. To acquire qualitative data, qualitative techniques such as interviews, focus groups, document analysis, and key informant interviews were used. The findings of the study indicate that NSAs’ engagements are governed by legal and policy provisions in the case study urban local governments (ULGs’). In spite of the aforementioned provisions, there have been imbalances in these provisions to safely deal with the involvement of NSAs’ in urban infrastructure service provisions. Furthermore, there was a significant disconnect between legal/policy provisions and their execution. The case study ULGs’ lacked the necessary resources to carry out constitutional provisions relating to the involvement of NSAs’ in urban infrastructure services. Consequently, the institutional environment might impede the role of NSAs’ engagement to improve decentralized development policy. The case study ULGs’ general institutional situation was pathetic to encourage the involvement of NSAs’ in urban infrastructure service provisions. The traditional top-down approach to institutional assistance was incompatible with the bottom-up nature of partnership development. There was significant gap in institutionalizing the involvement of NSAs’ in urban infrastructure service provisions although there have been proper efforts to institutionalize their engagement. This case study, therefore, contends that to guide NSAs’ involvement and the sharing of the merit of partnership development, unambiguous norms and regulations must be established. These laws and regulations must give the NSAs’ the freedom to engage in the activities of development and make judgments. Besides, this article contends that in order to fulfill their obligation to facilitate NSAs’ engagements, the case study ULGs’ require extensive manpower development. The development of manpower must concentrate on developing competent personnel and a welcoming institutional culture. The ULGs’ should have given sufficient powers and responsibilities over infrastructure service provisions.

Contributing to a Healthier Nigeria through Public Health Workforce Capacity Development: Afenet Experience in Nigeria

The recent upsurge in the number and magnitude of outbreaks of infectious diseases in Nigeria has been managed effectively and efficiently by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in an increasingly epidemiology guided approach led by a skilled workforce within the one health collaborative agenda.1–4 The increasing number of the outbreaks of re-emerging infectious diseases could not have been unconnected to the effect of global warming with its resultant effect in the changing population activities and interaction with nature.5–7 Nigeria could not have effectively contained these emerging public health challenges had she not taken steps in developing her public health infrastructure, the laboratory capabilities and manpower development. Since 2008, the Nigeria Field Epidemiology Laboratory Training Program (NFELTP), a collaborative effort by NCDC, Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) with financial and technical support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been building epidemiology capacity for disease prevention and control. Field epidemiology, the art and practice of epidemiology in the field, has been adopted as an effective tool and practice in preventing, detecting and controlling emerging public health threats and crisis. Field epidemiology provides the scientific evidence for public health actions.

Eksistensi peserta pelatihan kerja program pemagangan ilegal luar negeri khususnya di Jepang

Intern training program outside Indonesia region as a form of manpower development has significant role to overcome the high unemployment rate in Indonesia. In its implementation, the problem occurs wgen the participant of intern training program run away from the program or used to be called as illegal intern trainee. This paper aims to know and understand the existence of illegal intern trainee including the impacts, as well as legal actions that can be taken by Indonesia government to overcome the problems. This study is based on normative juridical approach with primary and secondary data sources. The study shows that the existence of illegal intern trainee that violate Indonesia’s and accepting country’s regulations causes loss of rights of the participant as intern trainee. As a consequence, ocupational safety facilities, and insurance assistance in the case of work accident, illness, nor mortality can not be accomodated, nonetheless assistance can still be given in the context of the illegal intern trainee status as Indonesian citizen. The Ministry of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia can take preventif actions in the form of supervision and development and represive legal action by temporary revocate the sending organization’s license. In the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia can take represive legal actions in the form of legal assistance, aid, including return assistance.How to Cite Item: Zulfakanti, B., Karsona, A., Singadimedja, H. (2021). Eksistensi peserta pelatihan kerja program pemagangan ilegal luar negeri khususnya di Jepang. Jurnal Cakrawala Hukum, 12(2), 139-149. doi:https://doi.org/10.26905/idjch.v12i2.4830

Employees' Digital Competency Development in the Construction and Automotive Industrial Sectors

Nowadays, many companies make a great deal of effort to take full advantage of digital transformation and stay ahead of their competitors. The influence of digitalisation on manpower development and human capabilities as well as on the business environment, in general, is especially noticeable in the construction and automotive sectors. That is why the main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of new digital technologies on employee competency development in Czech construction and automotive companies. The quantitative methodology is based on primary data collection conducted from July through October 2020 using the CAWI method. As a result, 27 responses from Czech construction companies and 39 responses from Czech automotive companies have been gathered in Survio software, processed and analysed by using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s chi-square test of independence. The qualitative data analysis applied in this paper includes three semi-structured interviews with human resource managers of selected Czech companies in the automotive industry. The advantages and disadvantages of the Covid-19 pandemic situation from the point of view of human resource management and employee training have also been analysed in the presented case study. The findings in this paper confirm that creating a digitally ready workforce and changing the employees’; mindset towards the new style of doing their jobs remain significant challenges to deal with in the Czech construction and automotive industries. Implications for Central European audience: This paper focuses primarily on the training and professional development of people employed in the construction and automotive sectors, which have been highly affected by the ongoing digitalisation of business and the current Covid-19 pandemic situation. As the results further demonstrate, the widespread use of digital technologies can definitely help to enhance employees’; digital competencies. However, the employees still have to get used to a digitalised workplace. In such conditions, the role of human resource managers is key in the implementation of continuous training as part of the corporate culture.

QUALITY ASSURANCE IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC HIGHER INSTITUTIONS: CHALLENGES AND WAY FORWARD

The quality of higher education in Nigeria is falling and this is affecting the social, economic and technological development of the country because the higher institutions are saddled with the responsibilities of manpower development of the country. In order to address this problem, there are various agencies designed to ensure quality assurance in the various higher institutions. These agencies are been confronted with many challenges. This paper is aimed to examine the problems preventing quality assurance programme in Nigerian public higher institutions from achieving their goals. To achieve this, the researchers employed secondary data to justify the various points raised in the paper. Print materials and online publication were sorted and used in the paper. This paper identified; inadequate funding, shortage of academic staff, poor implementation of quality assurance policies, inadequate infrastructural facilities, brain-drain, strike Actions ,corruption, weak supervision, poor staff development as problems preventing quality assurance in the Nigerian higher institutions. To ensure quality in the Nigerian higher institutions, the following have been suggested: adequate funding, employment of adequate academic staff, provision of adequate infrastructural facilities, fight all forms of corruption practices, implement all agreement reached with the different union groups, motivate academic staff, effective supervision, effective staff development.

Vocational Technical Manpower Development in Nigeria: Issues and Strategies

Vocational Technical Manpower Development in Nigeria: Issues and Strategies

The Role of Contemporary Religious Practice in the Development/Under-Development of Nigeria

This paper examines the role of contemporary religious practices in the development/underdevelopment of Nigeria. And it was revealed that despite some factors inhibiting the role of religion in the development of Nigeria, it has to a large extent contributed significantly to the economic development directly or indirectly especially in the development of manpower and human resources through the establishment of educational and health facilities. Based on these revelations, it was recommended among others to integrate religion into the development agenda of Nigeria to overcome the ignorance responsible for the disconnection some often make between their faith and their civic duties. Honestly embrace peace and mutual co-existence by understanding and tolerating one another’s religious beliefs.

Impact of artificial intelligence on employees working in industry 4.0 led organizations

PurposeThis study attempts to develop a practical understanding of the positive and negative employee experiences due to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and the creation of technostress. It unravels the human resource development-related challenges with the onset of Industry 4.0.Design/methodology/approachSemi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 professionals with average work experience of 7.6 years and working across nine industries, and the transcripts were analyzed using NVivo.FindingsThe findings establish prominent adverse impacts of the adoption of AI, namely, information security, data privacy, drastic changes resulting from digital transformations and job risk and insecurity brewing in the employee psyche. This is followed by a hierarchy of factors comprising the positive impacts, namely, work-related flexibility and autonomy, creativity and innovation and overall enhancement in job performance. Further factors contributing to technostress (among employees): work overload, job insecurity and complexity were identified.Practical implicationsThe emerging knowledge economy and technological interventions are changing the existing job profiles, hence the need for different skillsets and technological competencies. The organizations thus need to deploy strategic manpower development measures involving up-gradation of skills and knowledge management. Inculcating requisite skills requires well-designed training programs using specialized tools and virtual reality (VR). In addition, employees need to be supported in their evolving socio-technical relationships, for managing both positive and negative outcomes.Originality/valueThis research makes the unique contribution of establishing a qualitative hierarchy of prominent factors constituting unintended consequences, positive impacts and technostress creators (among employees) of AI deployment in organizational processes.

Hardiness, Supervisor Support and Work Engagement: Empirical Evidence from Tertiary Institutions in Ogun State, Nigeria

In times past, researchers have studied different variables that predict work engagement of employees but few of such studies have looked at the influence of hardiness and supervisor support on employees’ work engagement especially in Ogun State, Nigeria. This study therefore, examined the extent to which hardiness and supervisor support influence the work engagement of employees in public and private tertiary institutions in Ogun State, Nigeria. A sample of 476 employees selected through stratified random sampling technique was used. Hardiness, supervisor support and work engagement of employees were measured with standardized scales while three hypotheses postulated were analyzed with multiple regression and correlation analysis at .05 level of significance. Findings reveal that 43% of the variance in work engagement were accounted for by hardiness and supervisor support showing that hardiness and supervisor support jointly contributed to employees’ work engagement (F(2, 473) = 181.496, p .05) which had no significant contribution. Finally, there was a significant positive relationship between supervisor support and work engagement ((r = .659, p .05), and hardiness and supervisor support (r = .037, p > .05) These findings stress the important role of hardiness and supervisor support on the work engagement of employees. Implications of these findings is that managers need to create and boost needed managerial support at the various levels of employment to enhance employee engagement to meet organisational goals. Although hardiness is found to have no significant influence on work engagement, yet it is noted that individuals who are high in hardiness may be more likely to build and maintain a social network compared to those who are low in hardiness, hence the result of this research may be significant to employers on manpower development for better work commitment and engagement. It would therefore, be beneficial to provide hardiness trainings to new hires in the work place since previous researches has established that hardiness training may increase levels of hardiness in workers improving their job performance while leading to a reduction in attrition rate.