Aligning Human Resource in Public and Private Sectors: A Panacea to Nigerian Economy

Abstract

The past three decades have witnessed a widening gulf in the human resource practices between the public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy. This is why the Nigerian economy throughout these referred decades had continued to have endless hiccups and palpitations. The habits of seeing public sector as nobody's business had characterized the apathy, lawlessness and other corrupt practices that have seen almost all the public sector enterprises not performing well, as evidenced in the lackluster performances in the utilities sector, especially energy sector, and other sectors such as health, education, technology, air/land/sea transportations and other service industries. However, the paper examined the realities of under estimating the impacts of human resource practices on public and private sectors in the national economy in emerging global economic competitiveness. The finding from the study reveals that there is lack of commitment, aggressiveness and other drives to propel the private sector enterprises toward success, when measured against their public sector enterprises have been quite embarrassing. The research adopted observation and qualitative technique of data collection through content analysis and considerable review of related literature. Recommendations were stated such as applying transparency in management of employees, strategic human resource planning, practicing ethical standard in labour relations and cultivating good character in employee relations etc.