ADMIN AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN PERSONNEL MANG.

Abstract

CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION:
Niger state was created out of the former north western state with its headquarter in Sokoto in 1967 the creation of the state further brought the government activities nearer the people within their area especially when it comes to the issue of governance rather than going as far as to Sokoto to get approval for projects implementation, the seat of government is now located of Minna the state capital.
Niger state comprises of 25 local government areas with ministries and parastatalas. Among these ministries are ministry of agriculture, ministry of works, ministry of education ministry of finance, ministry of establishment and service maters, ministry of health, ministry of land and survey, ministry of solid minerals and ministry of women affairs, ministry of commerce and industry.
The state is made p of so many ethnic groups; some are big while some are small. Among these groups are Nupe, Gwari and Kambari
The main occupation of people is farming. The state is in the heart of Nigeria receiving very good amount of rainfall all the year round which enable the people to grow yam, guinea corn, cassava, melon, rice, sugar cane, and many others. Both river Niger and Benue passes through the state which makes it possible for a greater number of these people to engage in finishing.
There are so many festivals and celebration taking place within the stated based on the number of ethnic nationalities in the state. General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and General Abdulsalam Abubakar.
1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY:
In any human endeavor be it a small, medium or big size organization, if it must succeed, must have qualified personnel that would manage the organization. The personnel is most likely to be made up of various profession and discipline based on now complex the organization is and the ultimate goal that the organization wants to attain. It is on this note that the researcher chooses the topic ”managing personnel in public administration : A case study of Niger state Ministry of Health, Minna.
Niger state being one of the 36 state in Nigerian federation is saddled with some responsibilities as bestowed on it by the 1999 Nigeria constitution. Among thee responsibilities is the maintenance of security, camaronionus relations among the ethnic nationalities, the provision of social amenities across the populace, means of transportation by sea, air, road and by rail, medial care for the population as well as recreational facilities and provision of educational opportunities for the teaming populace.
All these roles con not be adequately performed without personnel and it is therefore the role of this research work to highlight how personnel are being managed so as to perform their duties.
1.3 MEANING AND OBJECTIVE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT:
Personnel management is that management functions which deals with human element in an organization. It is the process of managing the employee in a work.
There are several definitions giving to personnel management by several authors. The institution of personnel management of United Kingdom defines it as personnel management is a responsibility of all those who manage people as well as being a description of those who are employed special list
French (1970:3) also defined personnel management as the recruitment, selection, development and utilization of human resources by organization.
Yoder (1972) went on to defined it as it concerned with all the practices and procedures in which human resources are combined with other factors in production and distribution.
Gumming (1968) defined it as obtaining the best possible staff for an organization, and having got them, looking after them so that they will want to stay and give of their best to their jobs.
Conclusively, personnel management is a discipline that deals with jobs and people. It is also a discipline of study as pointed out by north off who described personnel management as a body of related duties which it so will with each other that they can be suitably and effectively be made the responsibility of one executive and can be thought of structurally as a department of a business.”
The basic objectives of personnel management are as defined by Armstrong ( 1984) as:
a) Obtaining, developing and motivating the human resources required by the organization to achieve its objectives,
b) Developing the structure and climate of an organization and evolving a management style which will promote cooperation and commitment throughout the organization.
c) Making the best use of the skill and capacities of all those employed in the organization and.
d) Ensuring that the organization meets its social and legal responsibilities to words it employees, and quality and quantity of working materials of provided for them. Personnel management is that management function which deals with human elements in an organization. its objectives is to increase the effectiveness of each worker by trying to do those things that will boost the morale of the workers and making them to develop the culture of working.
In any organization, human resources is the most essential asset whether in a business organization or social organization, since human resources (labour) determine, the success of an organization. It is therefore, the goals of personnel management as concluded by Aminu ( ) to enable each employee use his abilities, skills interests and opportunities to his and his company’s best advantage.
1.3 SCOPE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT:
Personnel management deals with the following group of people namely:
a) Society.
b) Workers.
c) Owners of means of production society..
The role of personnel management is to examine the relationship between the employers and employees which in essence means that it will del with people in the society and workers (labourers) are part of the society and the personnel manager have to deal with them not as an individual but collectively. The interest of the workers must be seen to be well protected by the society. The only person charged with protecting the workers is the personnel manager Workers.
Personnel managers are expected to deal with workers either collectively or individually. The role of the personnel manager like that of the ministry of health Minna, is to ensure that workers rights and interests protected because they are the backbone of the organization. If the workers have any grievances or disputes to the personnel managers (direction of personnel) either individually or collectively through the union which binds all the workers together. Personnel managers (direction of personnel) must ensure industrial peace and harmony if the organization must achieve the whole effort will be a fruitless one.
The personnel manager is purposely employed to produce some services (some thing) he provides is the maintenance of people who are expected to be the producers of products which is either the final product to be consumed by consumers or it could be another raw products. The ultimate goal of any business organization I to maximize profits, no owner of means of production will like to loose or fail therefore the personnel manage mist act as an intermediary between the owners of means of production, and the ultimate goal for setting up the business. To this end he must ensure that the right caliber of workers is employed to make sure that the goal of the organization is achieved. Where the workers are not suitable or are not putting in their best it is the role of the personnel manager to fire (dismiss) such a worker. Personnel manager combines several roles to himself so to ensure the success of the organization that he is working for. So he is an economist, accountant and a sociologist in order to understand the complex nature of human being. So he must have the knowledge of all these discipline in order to properly manage people (workers) under him.
1.4 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:
The aims and objectives of this study is
1. To examine the role of personnel in executing the functions of medical care within the general hospital and ministry of health as a whole ever since the state was created.
2. To highlight some of the problems confronting the ministry of health which makes it difficult to attain the set objectives especially the problem of health care delivery to nooks and cranny of the local government area.
3. To be able to highlight some of the problem that are confronting the organization as well as providing solutions to them.
1.5 DELIMITATION OF THE STUDY:
The scope of this study is delimited to only the Niger state ministry of health, Minna. The study is concentrated only on the role of personnel to wards health care delivery in the state.
1.6 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY:
Niger state ministry of health has total staff strength of 5000 workers. This comprises of 500 medical doctors, 2,500 nurses and midwives, 2000 auxiliary staff. Looking at this great number, it is not possible to reach every individual in the process of collecting data necessary for this project. The researcher therefore decided to limit herself to only the medical doctors and nurses/midwives. They are the beneficiary of the questionnaire prepared and served them on random sampling basis.
The places of interest to the researcher included the offices of the permanent secretary, the director of personnel, principal medical officer, chief nursing officer, hospital secretary and the chief accountant.
1.7 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
This research focuses it self on the management of personnel in a public sector. The impediments in the process of carrying out their functions. How consistent is the funding of the organization? How qualified are the staff employed to take charge of the ministry?
The study intend to find out other dormant sources of revenue which are presently untapped in the hospitals and to further suggest more incentives to be given to the civil servants especially those on essential duties.
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Management to give an effective control of an organization either business or social service.
2. Personnel people employed to work in an organization.
3. Ethnic a race of mankind Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Nupe or Kanuri.
4. Means of production this include land, jab our capital and entrepreneur necessary for the production of goods and services
5. Nationalities a member of a nation
6. Manager a person that controls or heads a business organization.
7. Welfare comfortable living as a result of good working condition.
8. Stimulation putting more effort as a result of praise.
9. Status social position one occupies in relation to others.
10. Cooperation working in group for a common purpose.
11. Communication sending messages through, roads, railways, telephone, telegraph, radio, and television.
12. Unionism coming together to struggle for a common cause.