Shortage Of Human Resources In Government Establishment Problems And Solutions

Shortage of human resources is a research work, which aimed a examine the shortage of human resources in government establishment problem and solutions. This study was centered on ministry of finance and Economic Planning Enugu state.
This research work has five chapters.
Chapter one contain a general discussion on the shortage of human resource as seen by the different people it went further to state the problem to be studied, the objective of the study, significant of the study, the scope and limitation of the study and finally the definition of terms and hypothesis.
Chapter two, a number of past related literature examined by other studies as to the shortage of human resources. The investigation revealed that some of the cause of shortage includes withdrawal by death some lest service through retirements etc.
Chapter three, deals with the design of the study, the methods used in collecting relevant date were primary and secondly method of sourcing.
Chapter four, the researcher analysed and presented the data collected in the tabulated form. And chi-square method (x2) were used in test of hypothesis.
Finally, finding were made which include the factors and problem associate with the shortage of human resources in government establishment. The factors that lead to the shortage were as follows:

i. Withdrawal of workers form service through retirement and retrenchment.
ii. Voluntary withdrawal from service by employees etc
The effect of the man-power shortage were as follows:

i. Drop in the level of productivities
ii. Decline in efficiency
iii. Delay in the rate of work etc.
In conclusion, based on the findings, the researcher also revealed that productivity is often affected adversely by the shortage of human resources and works are usually delayed so much.
Recommendation were made based on the finding and conclusions, the following recommendations are hereby made.
The government should employ enough and qualified man-power to fill the important vacant positions existing in the civil service.
Government should equally minimize the voluntarily withdrawal from service by the employee. This can be done by providing good remuneration and enticing working incentives from time to time to make them happy.