HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

Nigeria Postal Services (NIPOST) like other public enterprise is constraint with the problem of using nonperformance based element like salaries to compensate it staff as against performance-related pay structure which has hamper productivity because it does not make workers put in extra effort in their work. This is so because their compensation is not based on incentive schemes that elicit additional effort of workers sequel to unfriendly government legislation on wages clause and bureaucratic inefficiency. Hence the need to examine the effect of financial and non-financial incentive on staff productivity in Nigeria Postal Services Kaduna.

The development of any nation depends to a very large extent on the calibre, organization and motivation of its human resources. In the specific case of Nigeria where diversity exerts tremendous influence on politics and administration, the capacity to increase the benefits and reduce the costs of this diversity constitutes a human resource management challenge of epic proportion in its public sector organizations. Human Resource Management (HRM) is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization. Human Resource Management can also be performed by line managers.

The concept of human relations is used today in organizations to denote a systematic body of knowledge devoted to explaining the behaviour of man in relations to task performance in organization. Onasanya (1990) defines human relations as the relationship between one person and another and a group of people within a community whether at work or social gathering. He went further to state that good human relations between executives and other staff will leads to an understanding which can generate cooperation and hence attainment of organizational productivity.

One of the cardinal focus of the management is the application of management strategies that would bring about efficiency and high moral among which in turn result to high productivity. To make workers to be productive, there are certain condition to be met by employers of lbaours. Cole (1989), Pg 13 is ever looking at ways of attaining such goals. This has led to carrying out of several studies with a view to harmonize both human and natural resources.

The study was based on descriptive analysis of the motivational forces in service Industries, the case of PHCN, Uyo. The chapter is divided into five (5) parts, The first chapter dealt with the general introduction of the research findings, the second chapter dealt with the research finding made in the course of the investigations, the third part dealt with researcher’s recommendation based on investigation while the fourth part will make the conclusion. Finally the fifth part will provide suggestions for further studies.

Maintaining good employee-employer relationship is one criteria for an organization to succeed. If employees are not happy with management and their fellow colleagues at workplace, organizational goals will never be achieved. this study tends to study the relationship between employee grievance and the performance of the organization, as well as developing various employee relations strategies that can be used in effectively and efficiently managing employees in a business organization.

Nigerian Labour Law defines the INDUSTRIAL UNION any combination whether temporary or permanent, the principal objectives of which under its constitution are the regulation of the relations between workmen and workmen or between masters and masters or the imposing of restrictive condition on the conduct of any trade or business and the provision of benefit to members (cited in Fajana, 1995: 132). This definition would be seen to incorporate a large variety of organizations and groups under industrial union. Another definition of the concept regards it as, an association of wage or salary earners formed with the object of safe guarding and improving the wage and employment conditions of its members and to raise members’ social status and standards of living in the community (Fajana, 2000).

The research profer an appraisal of henry fayol principles of organization stability of tenure on employee performance. It profers a structural study on the nature of the principle of stability of tenure. Stability of tenure of personnel is a principle stating that in order for an organization to run smoothly, personnel (especially managerial personnel) must not frequently enter and exit the organization. Consequently, an organization must take steps to obtain as much stability in its management and workforce as possible. The research provides a case study of stability of tenure in the Nigerian brewery plc

The research profers an appraisal of neo-classical theory of organization.The neoclassical theory was an attempt at incorporating the behavioral sciences into management thought in order to solve the problems caused by classical theory practices. The premise of this inclusion was based on the idea that the role of management is to use employees to get things done in organizations. Rather than focus on production, structures, or technology, the neoclassical theory was concerned with the employee.

The long term success of an organization is related to its ability to measure how well its employees perform within a predetermined period, and how effectively, it uses that information to ensure that performance meets set standards, and also improves over time (Fisher, Schoenfeldt and Shaw, 2003).