Management as Practice: Improving Productivity and Performance in Organizational Setting

Abstract

This study examines the effect of human resource management on the productivity of the organization and how different HR variables help an organization to achieve its objectives in efficient and effective way. Here, the focus is on seven basic variables of human resource management which include incentive pay, recruitment and selection, work teams, job security, flexible job assignment, skills training and communication. The objective of the research is to find out how these variables operate among four different selected banks chosen in Ado-Ekiti Banking Sector of Nigeria Economy. Employees have different opinions about different variables; however, the variables that contribute most to the productivity are recruitment and selection, skills training and job security.

Keywords: Human Resource Management, Management, Organizational Setting, Productivity, Performance.