CHAPTER ONE
With specialties in the 1980s human resource management has started gaining and sustaining competitive advantage as it does to enhance competitiveness and to add valve to the firms in everything’s. It does with these, human resources management has repositioned what used to be called personnel management by giving it greater acceptance, scope responsibilities and position of influence and has started playing strategies roles in some of the following areas. Through better management and utilization of people and improvement in the professional skills of managers.
According to Agu C.N d(2001) possession of experience and enthusiastic staff is a great asset or strength of business. Also as noted by P.U Akanwa and Aham Anyanwu (1999) human resource refers to all the workers in a business organization considered as a group.
The human resource is the only types of organization resources capable of self management as well as managing others resource for the achievement of the organization goal(s).
1.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE UNILEVER PLC ABA
Unilever Nigeria plc was formally registered as lever Brothers Nigeria plc, lever Brothers plc, was incorporated as lever Brothers (West Africa) LTD on 11th April 1927 by Lord Lever’s hidture and has business in Britain.
Willian Hesketh levers, the founders of lever Brother Nigeria, whose part of his basic philosophy was to produce soap of a high quality and levers registered trade mark in SUNLIGHT.unilever Nigeria plc strengthened its foothold in the food and drinks business by mergers with Lipton Nigeria limited on July, 1985 and chase brought proceed industries December 1988 to become a giant in the manufacturing business.
In accordance with the Nigeria enterprise promotion with the Nigeria enterprise promotion decree of 1972 and 1977 sixty percent of the company’s equity is did by Nigeria citizen white party percent is had by foreign investors
Today, unilever Nigeria plc is a leading company in the industrial sector , engage in manufacturing and marketing of a wide range of chouse hold products which includes soup and powered soap as it product link. The unilever Nigeria plc offers close –up paste for sale in different size like large size, medium size, small size, sachet and these sizes are regarded as its product item.
Initially when the question of development of a new factory house four alternative location were considered. The include: Onitsha Aba, Umuahia and Port Harcourt. Aba was chosen in preference to others because of its strategies location within the eastern region and also had easy access road facilities to the Owerri and Calabar areas and the South eastern regions.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Human resources department of some organization perform various function but much is yet to be desired in the area of human resources planning which has led to the following
- Poor recruitment and selection policies and procedure
- Inadequate and storage of personnel with requisite skills
- Low productivity
- Inability to cope with change
- Poor training and development programmers.
OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
To find out the level of human resource planning practiced.
To examine the procedure steps involved in human resource planning
To ascertain how human resources planning is related to recruitment and selection.
To prefer solution on how to use human resources planning to improve the quality of personnel in organization.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. What are involved in human resources planning?
2. how is the recruitment and selection done in the company?
3. how does training and development facilities human resources planning in an organization
4. What factors militates against human resources planning in an organization.
5. Does human resource planning enhance employees’ performance in an organization?
6. Do effective human resources planning and development programmer improve production efficiency?
7. What is the major use of human resource planning in an organization?
8. do human resource planning censure efficient recruitment and selection of employees in an organization
RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS
The following hypotheses were formulated to determine the validity and reliability of the study. Null hypothesis
Hi: human resources planning do not enhance employee’s performance in an organization.