CHALLENGES OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN WEST AFRICA UNDER DEVELOPED ECONOMY

In many West African Public Services, the human resource was not treated as a valuable asset but a cost center and human resources managers were, and in many respects continue, to be marginalized. Human Resource Management (HRM) is an area that has suffered much neglect for over five decades of reforming the public service in the post-colonial West Africa. West African countries did not recognize the strategic position of the human resource manager in the formulation and implementation of organizational strategies. The role of staff responsible for managing people in work places was confined to routine functions about staff entitlements, pay increments, maintaining discipline and the like. This neglect has had disastrous consequences on various public sector reform interventions that West African countries have been embarking on