Impacts of Human Resource Planning on Organizational Performance (A Case Study of Cross River Basin Development Authority)

Abstract

The research investigates the effects of Human resource planning on Organizational Performance of Cross River Basin Development authority (CRBDA). The study is anchored on two theories; theory of career development and the Human Capital theory. The study employed the survey design. The focus of this study was on CRBDA, Uyo Area office in Akwa Ibom State. Stratified random sampling technique was deployed to select a sample size of 74 respondents from the population of 92 staff of the organization. The researcher structured a questionnaire titled “Human Resource Planning and Organizational Performance Questionnaire” (HURESOPQ) for data collection. The data gathered were analyzed using Mean, Range of scores (Minimum & Maximum), Standard deviation, Skewness and Kurtosis, while the IBM SPSS software and analysis of Variance (ANOVA) regression statistic technique was employed to examine the relationship and test the research hypotheses. From the results of findings, it was revealed that, there is a significant effect of Manpower/human resource forecasting needs on the Return on Asset (ROA) of CRBDA. This implies that MANPFAS is very crucial in an organization and that failure of CRBDA to pay high premium to it will lead to a decrease in achievement of organizational performance in CRBDA. Similarly, there are positive and significant impacts of both quality of personnel required/recruited and financial resource availability on the Return on Asset (ROA) of CRBDA. While the recruitment process has no significant effect on Return on Asset (ROA) of the Agency” which may be due to the politicization of employment process in Nigeria based on nepotism and favoritism. Thus, there are significant combine effects of Manpower forecasting, financial resource availability and recruitment process on the improvement of Return on Asset (ROA) of CRBDA. From the results, the study concludes that human resource Planning is the first and one of the fundamental functions of management, and indeed, it is sine qua-non to the establishment, management, operational efficiency and profitability of any business or organization. Management of CRBDA should as a matter of necessity adopt and sustain an accurately precise means of forecasting its manpower needs to accelerate the operational efficiency and organizational performance of the Agency.

Keywords: Planning, Performance, Recruitment, Manpower, and Forecasting.