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Challenges Of Human Capital Development In Nigeria’s Federal Civil Service
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
The 1999 Constitution defines the Civil Service of the Federation as
‘service of the Federation in a civil capacity as staff of the Office of
the President, the Vice-President, a Ministry or department of the
Government of the Federation assigned with the responsibility for any
business of the Government of the Federation’’ b(part iv,318 (1). The
civil service of the federation is the organ of the government that is
responsible for the implementation and execution of Federal Government
policies, programs and decisions; they are often regarded as the fourth
tier of government. Their roles and functions are so crucial and
indispensable that no government can do without them.
The Nigeria
civil service is an important institution of the state, which affects
the lives of the citizens daily. It is essential to modern life because
of the roles it plays in ensuring that the policies and programs of
government are translated into action and brought to reality. Ezeani
(2004:188) highlighted that “the civil service remains a vital
instrument for rapid socio-economic development of any nation, for any
meaningful development and achievement to take place, the civil service
must be properly positioned and equippedâ€.
In view of the above, for
civil service to achieve her objectives, the personnel have to be fully
developed and equipped properly. This view is supported by, Moscher in
Nwizu, and Nwapi (2011:15) who formulated four propositions about the
civil service:
The decision and behaviour of the civil service have
tremendous influence upon the future and development of our society,
our economy, and ur policy.
· The great bulk of decisions and
activities by government are determined or heavily influenced by
administrative officials.
· The kinds of decisions and
activities the officials take depend upon their capacities, their
orientations and their values.
· The attributes depend heavily upon their background, their training, education and other
current associations
From
the above we can deduce that Civil Service can tremendously influence
the development of our society, economy and policy, the same Civil
Service determine most of the government actions and inactions, the
performance of Civil Service is also dependent on their capacity and
competence which is equally dependent on their background, training, and
education. The implication of the above is that Human Capital
Development must be given priority in Nigeria Civil Service
This view
is supported by Theodore W. Schutz (1961) who sees human capital to
refer as the stock of productive knowledge and skills possessed by
workers. He believes that human capital is like other capital that can
be invested through education, training and enhanced benefits that would
lead to an improvement in the quality development of a nation: that in
order to get the best of human capital and in view of the fact that no
nation can develop higher than the human capital base of her Civil
Service, then the need for development and continuous development of
this human capital become a sine qua non for national development.
According
to Onah (2014:188) “Human Capital Development, refers to a process that
relates to training, education and other professional initiatives in
order to increase the level ofknowledge, skills, abilities, values and
social assets of an employee which will lead to an employees,
satisfaction, high performance, and eventually increase in
organizational productivityâ€. Human Capital Development is all about
investing in personnel training and growth to ensure that the total
objectives and organizational, goals are met Yesufu (2000:321) in
Ojbolo: opined that the essence of Human Capital Development is to
ensure that workforce is continually adopted or upgraded to meet the new
challenges of its total environment. This implies that those already on
the job require re-training, re-orientation or adaptation to meet the
new challenges, Ijaiya (2004:34) sees Human Capital Development as a
process of acquiring and increasing the number of people who have the
skills, education and experience which are critical for the economic and
the political development of a country. According to him, Human Capital
Development is therefore associated with investment in man and her
development as creative and productive resources.
Human Capital
Development henceforth is concerned with the development of human
resource in an organization. Development means improving the existing
human resources in the organization and helping them to acquire new
capabilities required for the achievement of the corporate as well as
individual goals
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