CULTURAL VALUES AND MANPOWER PLANNING: THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

This paper examined Cultural Values and Manpower Planning: The Nigerian Experience. Culture is considered as a way of life; it is a form of belief which dictates, regulates and hold sway on the perception through which life should be lived among a group of persons and also emphasize the conventional standard of behaviour expected. Culture cuts across all structures and institutions of every society and no institution can function adequately without acknowledging the cultural components of its environment; but the fact that an organisation must align itself with the custom and practice of the territory where it operates, the required operational standard must be maintained and protected to ease the work process and to ensure the attainment of organisational corporate goal. The study was anchored on the structural-functionalist theory of Talcott Parsons. The study concluded that an organisation is a fragment of the societal elements which enable sufficient functionality, likewise, culture is the bedrock in which institutions and structures rely upon that makes them more operable. Thus, planning for current and future manpower of the organisation must take culture into cognizance but not at the expense of the right operational strategy and standards.