STAFF MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN PENTECOSTAL SEMINARIES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The importance of staff management is increasingly being realized in the educational system. This realization is apparently as a result of increasing complexity of the tasks which administrators perform. There are perceived problems in the areas of recruitment, training and development, remuneration, motivation, supervision, discipline and performance appraisal of their staff. Pentecostal institutions are not insulated from such problems. While staff is a great asset to every educational institution, it becomes problematic if not properly managed. Hence the import of this study is to examine staff management practices in Pentecostal Seminaries in South-East, Nigeria. Management has been variously defined. Obi (2003) is of the view that the word 'manage' seems to have come into English usage directly from Italian word managerial, meaning to handle. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the words manage and manager over appeared in usage, and today's meaning of the word manage is...