Definitions
- Recruitment :
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refers to the process seeking, evaluating, selecting, and placing of right candidates with requisite skills and dispositions needed for the successful attainment of the goals of an organization in a sustainable manner.
- Recruitment practices :
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entail the peculiar activities that often tend to characterize the game of workforce engagement such as interest sharing (biopolitics and geopolitics) in Nigeria bureaucratic processes (Ukeje et al. 2020, p. 370).
- Sustainable development :
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is defined, according to the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (WCED 1987, p. 47).
Introduction
There is a desperate need for public service recruitment process reform in Nigeria if the country is to achieve the 169 targets set in the Sustainable...
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Ndukwe, C. et al. (2020). Recruitment Practices and Sustainable Development. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_4034-1
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