HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR

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1999
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SALAHUDDEEN, Muhammed Mansur
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ABSTRACT This research work sets out to study and examine how effective human resource is being managed in the financial sector using the Central Bank of Nigeria as a case study. Investigations have been made to see how human resources has thus far been managed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Findings based on feedback from the samples interviewed and questionnaires administered were interpreted. This interpretation reflects the items of the samples over pressing issues of this research. Consequently, the approval or disapproval of the research hypothesis were determined by the numerical strength of the sample opinions and the findings made by the researcher from the relevant literatures, especially in the publications of the Central Bank of Nigeria itself. The researcher found out that although the Bank has a whole department in charge of the management of its work force, the recruitment, deployment, development and proper utilization of this work force still leaves much to be desired. This is greatly attributable to poor records keeping, which makes timely retrieval and update of personnel records extremely difficult and in some cases impossible. The simple structure and staff strength of the Bank at inception (two departments and 104 staff) and its present complex structure (with 24 departments and over 8,000 staff) makes the system in place cumbersome, unpracticable and outdated. 1 The phenomenal growth in the highly professionalised work force of the Bank continues to pose complex managerial challenges and practices. Consequently, the system either overlook or ignore some of its functions as it cannot, effectively, cope with the sophisticated demand of managing the over 8,000 highly professionalised work force of the Bank. The present day human resource manager equally needs an effective tool that will assist him in molding and shaping the Bank's most valuable asset (humans) into the next millennium. In this vein, the Central Bank of Nigeria has, to a certain extent, attempted to partially package and implement an electronic Human Resources Management System. The full implementation and utilization of this much needed tool for the effective harnessing and utilization of its abundant work force has however not been achieved yet. Recommendation as to how the Bank can improve in its efforts to effectively manage its professionalised human resource were highlighted.
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IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) DEGREE.
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HUMAN,, RESOURCES,, MANAGEMENT,, FINANCIAL,, SECTOR., CASE,, STUDY,, CENTRAL,, BANK,, NIGERIA
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