HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY OF NNPC NIGERIA PLC)

HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING AND ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE (CASE STUDY OF NNPC NIGERIA PLC)

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

The history of planning is old as man himself planning had started from the ancient era during the primitive period when there were no industries or firms. Planning is a basic function of management thus therefore means that planning pervades all the functional area of management which include personnel, production, research and development, marketing and finance. Through planning organization goals and objective are determined; the resources available must be strategies to achieve the goals and objectives. Planning provide answers to what? How? When? And their relationship to organization activities. In personnel management function, human resources panel is a basic function. Human resources planning is sometime referred to as workforce planning, which is defined as the process of the right number of qualified people into the right job at the right time. To ensure adequate workforce in the organization, management must plan properly, proper planning in this respect involves accurate projection of the future, taking inventory of existing workforce, comparing the force with the existing one and take corrective measure. Productivity means rate of output, degree of result and success which is directly related to profitability and turnover. This research study concentrates on the possible impact of human resources planning on workers’ productivity. The human resources mean the human that are in the organization. Without them there cannot be production. So there is need for the organization to plan well for its human resource. Proper planning enhances the productivity of an organization. How?

• Planning helps to resolve problem of shortage of staff in organization
• It also helps in determining and planning whatever capital, material, equipment and personnel required in an organization in order to achieve organization objectives
• Human resource planning defining the duties and responsibilities of the personnel employed and determining the manner in which their activities are to be interrelated
• Human resource use planning to assess external forces to help the firm deal with environmental uncertainty by mobilizing scare or limited resources to neutralize potential threats.
• Planning make control possible, which is, comparing actual outcome with performance standards and taking corrective action if variance exists
• Human resource planning management development by helping managers to take proactive role in moving the organization toward a future desired state.

Lastly, human resource planning function include staffing, that is acquiring qualified and appropriate number of workers for an organization, to determining and acquiring other resources and proper allocation of these resources. In addition, co-ordination of activities of all members and parts of an organization is another major purpose of human resource planning in order to boost production. In the light of the above, the study is focused on the impact of human resource planning on organizational performance of NNPC Nigeria plc. 

 1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

One of the most serious problems facing NNPC Nigeria plc. is the acute shortage of qualified resources. The problem of inadequate skilled manpower in Nigeria industrial sector could be traced to a number of factors which include the colonial administrative policies which gave the local population more opportunity to develop. Some of the problem faced by the human resources planners is as follows: 

1. Management of fund, funds kept for the proper planning management of the organization is always converted to their private pocket by the top management.
2. As a result of lack of motivation money of our expertise in Nigeria have gone to a board where they will be paid and live in a comfortable house with all kinds of fringe benefits
3. The rate of labour turnover is increasing because of lack of facilities in our higher institutions, irrelevance of the educational curriculum to the need of the economic

 1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

This study is of the view that human resources is very important factor in the production, management and government as a whole. Human resources will not be of any value if it is not productive. Therefore, to identify factor which hamper the effective and efficient operation of NNPC Nigeria plc., the management of the organization must strategize using the all resources available in their care to make sure that their objective is achieved at the long run. In order to guide the study, the following objectives are put forward:

1. To determine how employees are being compensated as well as the fringe benefit received in NNPC Nigeria plc.
2. To ascertain whether the service rendering to customer are of optimum quality in NNPC Nigeria plc.
3. To find out the actual problem affecting the management of NNPC Nigeria plc.
4. To find out the level of the labour turnover and how it affect on the productivity in NNPC Nigeria plc.
5. To see how human resources planning has change the level of production capacity in NNPC Nigeria plc.

1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES

For the successful completion of the study, the following research hypotheses were formulated by the researcher;  

H0:  There is no impact of human resource planning on organizational performance of NNPC Nigeria plc.

 H1: There is an impact of human resource planning on organizational performance of NNPC Nigeria plc.

 H02: there is no problem affecting the management of NNPC Nigeria plc. 

 H2: there is problem affecting the management of NNPC Nigeria plc. 

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study is necessitated by the urge and the need for the research, reader and organizations in general to understand the advantages of implementation of human resources on productivity stem that will serve as tool for achieving higher organization productivity. The following are the significance of study to the researcher:

1. To serve as guide to corporate individuals, organization and student alike in furtherance to their research on the subject matter
2. To help government in the determination of how productive is both public and private sector of the economy
3. To serve as a reference materials for students who will wish to conduct similar studies on this topic.

1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The scope of the study covers the impact of human resource planning on organizational performance. The respondents for this study will be obtained from NNPC Nigeria plc. Rivers State. The researcher encounters some constrain which limited the scope of the study;

 a) AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH MATERIAL: The research material available to the researcher is insufficient, thereby limiting the study

b) TIME: The time frame allocated to the study does not enhance wider coverage as the researcher has to combine other academic activities and examinations with the study.

c) Organizational privacy: Limited Access to the selected auditing firm makes it difficult to get all the necessary and required information concerning the activities    

1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS

HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING: Human resource planning is a process that identifies current and future human resources needs for an organization to achieve its goals. Human resource planning should serve as a link between human resource management and the overall strategic plan of an organization.

ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE:

Organizational performance comprises the actual output or results of an organization as measured against its intended outputs (or goals and objectives).

1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY

This research work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows

Chapter one is concern with the introduction, which consist of the (overview, of the study), historical background, statement of problem, objectives of the study, research hypotheses, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study, definition of terms and historical background of the study. Chapter two highlights the theoretical framework on which the study is based, thus the review of related literature. Chapter three deals on the research design and methodology adopted in the study. Chapter four concentrate on the data collection and analysis and presentation of finding.  Chapter five gives summary, conclusion, and recommendations made of the study

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