A Critical Appraisal of Personnel Management System and its Performance in Colonial Nigeria

This paper titled “A Critical Appraisal of Personnel Management System and its Performance in Colonial Nigeria” focuses on the application of human resource management concepts in public and private bureaucracies in Nigeria during colonial period. The paper reveals the influence of the dynamics of colonialism in the emerging personnel management system in terms of utilizing the workforce to achieve the colonial political and economic policies. It concluded that the personnel system was structured to benefit the colonial masters at the expense of the colony and its development. Thus, the exploitation and neglect of the natives undermined the performance of the colonial personnel management system in Nigeria.