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A Survey Of The Efficient And Effective Personnel Management In Small And Medium Scale Industries
[A CASE STUDY OF FIVE SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE INDUSTRIES IN OWERRI IMO STATE]
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The human relations school of thought influenced the human bureaucracy
stage in the development of personnel thinking, which was in many ways a
reaction against scientific management.
The human relation approach
appealed immediately to those who were concerned about industrial
conflict and the bad results from scientific management. The main
advocate was Elton mayo (1993). The central idea was to emphasize
informal social relationships and employee morale as contributions to
organizational efficiency. It let to the concern, collective opinion or
negotiation stage where appointed as their accredited representatives.
Employee shifted towards bargaining with the representatives on at least
some matters. The personnel manager actively participated in the
bargaining since he had acquired bargaining expertise.
The human
relations view gave a number of benefits to employees; they were
paternalistic determined by management with more input from employees.
Management felt the need to maintain good relations with employees
because it believed this would lead to high performance. It thus,
provided benefits not because employees demanded or needed such benefits
but because it wanted to buy over the employees as a strategy for
achieving its own objectives. It was popularized by the Hawthorn
studies, which demonstrated the effect of framework and co-operation on
performance.
The last stage is the manpower analyst, associated with
the terms “management of human resourcesâ€. There is also the use of
manpower planning in which organizations utilize and improve human
resources. It assesses what manpower will be needed, decides what
manpower in an organization is likely to have in the future, and take
actions to ensure that supply meets demands.
This last stage is
where the problems of personnel management lie in small scale
organizations; this research will look deeply into the functions and
problems of personnel management and ways of improving and combating
them.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Personnel management in small
medium scale industries has been faced with multi-dimensional problems.
Personnel is one of our most complex and challenging fields or
endeavors, this is because it is this function that integrates the
interest of the organization-that of the employee and the society at
large. The success of an organization depends largely on the activity of
her personnel. And in the light of the foregoing, these questions were
found relevant to guild the present research effort:
I. What are the sources of recruitment in Agason Nigeria Limited?
II. What are the sources of human resources development in Agason Nigeria Limited?
III. What are the basics for wages and salary administration in small scale organizations?
IV. What are the motivational factors in Agason Nigeria Limited?
V. Is the owner aware of internal and external assessments within and outside the organization?
VI. Does lack of fund impede the implementation of personnel functions in Agason Nigeria limited?
VII. What are personnel functions in small-scale organizations like Agason Nigeria limited?
VIII. What are future prospects of personnel management in small scale organizations like Agason Nigeria limited?
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The
search for solutions to the problems and prospects of personnel
management in small scale organizations has almost proved abortive.
These problems are multifarious and the purpose of this research is to
reduce these problems to the minimum and make small scale industries
achieve or attain the purpose of which they were set up. Therefore the
specific objectives of this research could be narrowed down as follows:
1) To determine whether or not human resources development affects the organizational efficiency of Agason Nigeria Limited.
2) To find out if motivation of workers helps in achieving the goals of Agason Nigeria Limited.
3) To determine if wrong selection and recruitment of workers has a negative effect on Agason Nigeria limited.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The efficiency and effectiveness of any organization weather small or big depends on the people that manage it. And manning an organization has been a serious problem of small and medium scale companies like Nigeria and because of this, these companies have not been able to achieve their goals. It is against this background that this research work was conducted to investigate such problems as sources of recruitment and selection of workers, human resources development and motivational factors in ... Continue reading---
