Managerial Selection and Placement as Tools of Enterprise’s Effectiveness

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue X, October 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Managerial Selection and Placement as Tools of Enterprise’s Effectiveness

 Lawal Muhammad Shagari, Bashar Umar, Samaila Mukhtar
At College of Administrative and Business Studies Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto-Nigeria

Abstract: Most business organizations that are folding up in Nigeria today are victims of ineffectiveness. The vision and mission of their establishment have remained rather unattainable because they lacked capability for goal accomplishment. This is commonly found where managerial selection and placement procedures employed have been defective. Human resources remain one of the most active of all resources. To a considerable extent, it determines organizational performance. Managers in particular give enterprise the right focus and direction. This paper appraises the role of managerial selection and placement in organizational effectiveness. Selection process and problem of making the right selection, and coupled with appropriate motivational packages, it can be an enduring strategy for accomplishing enterprise’s goals and remaining relevant to all stakeholders.

Keywords: Organization, Manager, Resources

I. INTRODUCTION

Establishing a business enterprise is invariably borne out of definite mission goals and objectives. Goal attainment is a function of availability of needed human and material resources in the required quantity and quality – and appropriate combination of such resources. Where any of these ingredients is lacking, corporate goal achievement remains a mirage. The “mission-impossible syndrome” which seems characterizes most of the Nigerian business enterprises today is symbolic of managerial failure, based on inability to function effectively. The million Naira question is why do most Nigerian mangers fail? The starting point for the failure of a manager is defective selection and Placement procedure, (Akibu and Adebayo, 2001).
A manager has been destined to fail right from the beginning if the process of selection and placement is faulty Simply put, when the foundation is defective, whatever edifice is placed on it is bound to collapse sometime. Drucker (2011:13) argued that the finger is the dynamic life-giving element in every business. He contended that in competitive economy, the quality and performance of a manager determines the success of a business, and indeed its survival. Koontz et al (2008:35) said that the quality of a manager is one of the most important single determining factors for the continuing success of any organization. This gives initial support to the hypothesis that the right managerial selection and placement is the main tool of enterprise effectiveness.
Enterprises Mission/Goal and Objectives

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