Report of the national training workshop on the analysis and formulation of human resources policies for recovery and sustained development : Nipa, Zambia, 9 - 13 December 1991

Abstract

Human resources management encompasses three interrelated managerial efforts. First, one must manage the development of needed skills, knowledge and work attitude. Secondly, the utilisation of the human resources must be managed. Finally, the process of linking the two for efficiency would need to be managed. In operational terms, therefore, the entire process of human resources management involved a host of managers at different levels all applying various managerial principles, practices and techniques within an integrated system. What was often overlooked by many African governments, either deliberately or accidentally, was that planning at each of the stages provided a useful link in the process of human resources management. Since the effectiveness of the process would depend on the degree and the manner in which the institutions are linked, inter-related and co-ordinated, this oversight could have far reaching negative consequences not only on the status of human resources development and utilisation and the balance between the two, but also on the human initiative within the national development process.