CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The Nigeria civil service is made up of people from different ethical group with diverse tradition, culture, tongues and social norms and values. These differences in culture, tribe and tongue in the civil service has true meaning when we look at some of the issues affecting the effective performance of the civil services in the country.
There are always noticeable conflicts in the Nigeria civil services arising from political structure and arrangement, class conflict, which dwell on positions and authority in management. This class conflicts has its own inherent impact in the effective management of the civil service.
Who is who in authority in the civil service always has its own impact on recruitment and employment, which do favour some particular social cultural and political group.
Manpower development and training is always a political affair in the civil services. One of the major ways civil service invests in their work force for greater nation today and even future is through the training and development of their employer.
Training is like sharpening of an existing skill in order to reflect the trend in technology and other socio cultural environment of an organization. The major object of training and development is to increase the efficiency of the employees with the resulting increase in corporate productivity.
The civil service, training and manpower development are always a political matter. Some may be trained locally while the favoured ones would be trained overseas.
Promotions and elevation mostly to highly exacted position do receive some political consideration while such exercise is always spread to cut across ethnic barrier. No matter how efficient and effective some particular ethnics may be in a particular ministry in organization all of them would not be promotes to he detriment of others.
Other social consideration do crisis in the civil services such as favoritism religion group and some other social interest which always received some attacks in the civil services.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
There is always the problem in study of this kind which does permit us to look at the possible of overcoming them.
There is always the problem of determining the extent of political conflict in the civil service because permanent secretaries and head of department are not permanent position, because human being has different characteristics while there is a greater degree of conflict in one ministry or government agency, another might have little or no socio-political conflicts.
The issue of societal norms and values as well as culture may be a hindrance to elevating some people to certain position, this stern from the fact that social and cultural diversity affects the participation to some social events in the country.
1.2 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The objectives of our study are as follows
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