APPRAISAL OF EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT PRACTICES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES MANAGERS IN DELTA STATEFOR IMPROVED PERFORMANCE

The study appraised employee recruitment practices utilized by managers of small
and medium scale enterprises (SMSEs) for improved performance in Delta State.
One research question guided the study and two hypotheses were tested.
Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The study was carried out in
Delta State of Nigeria. The decision to use Delta State for the study is informed by
the fact that the state has many SMSEs which are experiencing reduction in
business size, slow expansion rate and even business failure. Population for the
study consisted of 420 managers of SMSEs in the general business service sector
operating in Delta State. The entire population was used in the study without
sampling. A structured questionnaire comprising seven items which was validated
by three experts in the field was used to collect data. Mean and standard deviation
were used to answer the research question and determine the closeness of the
respondents’ mean while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and t-test were used in
testing the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that
managers of SMEs in Delta State utilize employee recruitment practices to a
moderate extent. It was also revealed that years of business experience and gender
of the respondents did not significantly influence their mean ratings. Based on
these findings, it was recommended among others, that managers of SMSEs should
make concerted efforts to improve their employee recruitment process and systems
through purchase and reading of books and journals on employee recruitment
practices. It was also recommended that the National Association for Small and
Medium Scale Entrepreneurs (NASME) should organize conferences and
workshops for her members in order to educate them on the importance of
recruiting the right employees in their organization.

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