CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
• BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Inadequacy of manpower planning has been considered as one of the major underpin why most organization today are facing a chaotic situation as they did not at onset plan their workforce, neither did they have any systematic human resource (HR) or management programmed that put the organization goals first and the decay or dwindling of most organization is an evident as the level of frustration is equally high: and the reality Goetz (1989). However, the cause of this unfortunate development is primarily attributed to lack of proper and effective manpower planning. If not, what else can best explain the sharp increase in the workers strength as soon as any new chief executive emerges.
“For instance, in departmental organization like ministries, four directors are found in one obscure room doing nothing and other junior workers are satisfied to find a place under a mango tree located around the premises “Onah (2008). Indeed manpower planning otherwise called Human resource (HR) planning is of great significant to organizational growth, even in the socio-economic development of any nation, its significant cannot be over emphasized.
Human Resource (HR) are the totality of human potentials (knowledge, skills, attitude, energy and technology) inherent within a nation’s human resource stock and whose combined effect, if properly developed and harnessed would yield a high level of productivity. Economic Commission for Africa,” ECA” (1989). In other words, the term connotes man in relationship to the world of work which involves producing goods and services of all kinds in the social, political, cultural and economic development nations.