MODELLING THE MANPOWER PLANNING OF NIGERIAN PORT OPERATIONS
MODELLING THE MANPOWER PLANNING OF NIGERIAN PORT OPERATIONS

Summary/Abstract: Maritime industry has become a veritable and highly technical segment of Nigeria’s national economy. It requires highly skilled personnel and professionals. To develop such an industry, therefore requires appropriate planning for the human elements that would make the industry achieve the desired results. Manpower planning links organization’s structures/strategies, policies and people together to be able to match and review any organization manpower requirements and its availability. Manpower issue in the maritime sector constituted a problem for urgent attention. This paper investigated the existing manpower data of Nigeria Port Authority (NPA) and carry out quantitative description of its flow with respect to five well defined states; a twenty-year data of staff transition was analysed. A multivariate linear regression was developed to describe the manpower flow of the Nigeria Port Authority. The model developed indicated that the establishment needs a staff stock of at least 13,264 yearly for a steady flow of operation for the period under investigation. The Mean Forecast Error value which is lower than the actual manpower and the sampling tracking signal not exceeding the computed value shows that the developed multivariate linear regression model is appropriate to describe the manpower data obtained.

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