08Jun 2017

STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AND ITS EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE PROCUREMENT IN ORGANISATION.

  • Department Of Management, University Of Nigeria, Enugu Campus.
  • Department of Business Administration and Management Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo.
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This work is on strategic planning process and its effects on employee procurement in AC Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Enugu, Nigeria. Successful organisations are those that have a strategic planning for obtaining the right number and the right kind of employees. The objectives of the study were to ascertain strategic planning features that bear on employee procurement and to determine the impact of strategic planning on employee procurement. The work concluded that organisation employs strategic planning process in employee procurement; strategic planning process ensures survival of organisation; it ensures procurement of the right number and right kind of employees; it exposes future demand pattern of employee procurement; it provides a guide to employee evaluation; and it sets training guide for employee. Therefore the work recommended that employee procurement process should base on wide consultation; it should be comprehensive; it should be systematic; it should be flexible to adapt to changing situations and organisation should monitor employee procurement process.


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[Okeke Raymond Njelita and Agu Dennis Eberechi. (2017); STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS AND ITS EFFECTS ON EMPLOYEE PROCUREMENT IN ORGANISATION. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Jun). 40-47] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Agu Dennis Eberechi
Imo State Polytechnic Umuagwo, Imo State

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4379      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/4379