MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY IN THE RIVERS STATE CIVIL SERVICE

This study investigated manpower development and organizational productivity in the Rivers State Civil Service. Civil Service is the machinery of government that performs the unique role of governance and national development as such government everywhere in the world have come to terms with the need to train and re-train it’s human resource for them to be better equipped to maximize productivity levels and meet the challenges of governance and management. To elaborate the point and adduced genuine understanding of the issue under discussion; the study makes, use of the system theory of David Easton and Gabriel Almond (1960) as its theoretical framework with the assumption than an organization and its environment are inter-dependent; each depending on the other for sustenance which is in agreement with the fact that a dysfunction of one structure ultimately paralyses the other parts of the system. This is the goal intended to attain to in our discussion in this paper. Analyses of the investigation were solely qualitative through date gathered for secondary sources. The study concludes in its finding that; as though there is no due consideration given to the manpower (work force) in the Rivers State Civil Service, yet, the fact remains that manpower development is a prerequisite requirement for productivity in Rivers State Civil Service. On this note the study recommended amongst others that the civil service should device a scheme that will compel workers at every point in their career development to undergo particular training in-line with their job calling.