HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN NIGERIA: BARRIERS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Secondary data that collected from print and online publications were employed to analyze the concept of human resources management and the university system in Nigeria. The paper also discussed the challenges facing human resources management in public universities in Nigeria. The paper concludes that; inadequate funding, ineffective capacity-building programme, poor manpower planning, poor motivation, political influence, corruption, and brain drain are the challenges facing human resources management in public universities in Nigeria. To solve the challenges, the paper advanced the following suggestions; increment in the budgetary allocation of the university system, implementation of a more robust capacity building programme, manpower planning, motivation packages, de-politicization of the university system, and deployment of human and ICT resources to combat corruption in the system.