Assessment of the Effects of Recruitment Challenges on the Performance of Employees in Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS)

Abstract

The study on assessment of the effects of recruitment challenges on the performance of employees observed that most institutions in Nigeria are bedeviled with so many recruitment challenges thus, it examined the effects of recruitment challenges on the performance of employees at the Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Services. This ex-post and descriptive study had a population of 2,867 employees that was reduced to a sample size of 400 determined using the Yamane formula. Subsequently, copies of questionnaire were administered on this sample size and 339 representing 84.75 percent were completed, returned and used for the analysis. The analysis was conducted using the simple percentage statistical technique while the multiple regression via the SPSS was used to test the formulated hypotheses. The study found significant but inverse relationships and effects between recruitment challenges and employees’ performance. Consequently, the study recommended that serious, concerted and significant efforts should be made by the relevant authorities such as the management of the organization and other supervisory government agencies and departments to discourage political interferences and nepotism as well as to ensure strict adherence to the process and principles of federal character in order to recruit appropriate employee for improved and sustained employees’ performances.