Managing a Country’s Human Resource through Flexible Work Arrangement Policy: A Strategy to Reduce Unemployment in Nigeria
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 10
Abstract
It is already an established fact that Nigeria is blessed with human and material resources. While this is true, obvious challenges exist that questions her ability to manage these two set of resources. For instance, widespread unemployment and poverty suggest clearly that the country’s human resource is largely underutilized. This paper examined the issue of how human resource can be managed through the use of a flexible work arrangementpolicy that enables numerical and temporal variability in Nigeria’s work environment.To achieve this aim, the paper adopts the content analysis approach for data gathering and by extension the qualitative technique for data analysis.Hence, the Marxist political economy theory was adopted as a theoretical framework to further strengthen the analysis in this paper. It, therefore,argued that in most countries where the unemployment rate is not as high as that of Nigeria, numerical and temporal variabilities as ways of mainstreaming flexible work arrangements have been adopted to make jobs fairly available to citizens. Based on this, the paper submits that human resource management in Nigeria is not consciously driven by a flexible work arrangement policy. This goes a long way to undermine the human resource base of the country as more people who ordinarily would have been able to secure jobs under a numerically and a temporallyvaried work scenario remain unemployed. Hence, the paper recommends that the Nigerian government through a policy framework should create the enabling environment that ensures numerical and temporal variability in her public sector. This would go a long way to make jobs available to more people, reduce unemployment as well as widespread poverty in the country.
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Adias Lolo, Raimi Lasisi
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