HUMAN RESOURCE RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY ADMINISTRATORS FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

The study examined human resource recruitment and training competencies required by
administrators for effective management of tertiary institutions in South-south Nigeria. Two
research questions were answered while two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance.
Descriptive survey research design was adopted in carrying out the study. The population and
sample of the study comprised 1,736 administrators from the existing public tertiary institutions
in the six South-South States of Nigeria. The sample of the study is 868; represents 50% of the
population. The instrument that was used for data collection was a structured questionnaire
titled: Human Resource Recruitment and Training Questionnaire (HRRTQ) face-validated by
three experts. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha reliability
method which yielded a coefficient of 0.85 for human resource recruitment competencies and
0.91 for human resource training competencies. Data collected were analyzed using mean for
answering the research questions while analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used for testing the
hypotheses. Based on the data collected and analysed, the study identified 11 human resource
recruitment competencies and 11 human resource training competencies required by
administrators for effective management of tertiary institutions in South-south, Nigeria. There
are no significant (p<0.05) difference in the mean ratings of the responses of administrators in
universities, polytechnics and colleges of education on the human resource management
competencies required for employees recruitment and training in tertiary institutions in SouthSouth, Nigeria. Hence, the study among others recommended that the findings of this study
should be packaged into a pamphlet and made available to all categories of administrators in
tertiary institutions to serve as a guide in their human resource management and conduct of
their duties in the school.

Recruitment, Training, Tertiary Institution, Administrators, Human Resource,

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