Human Resource Management Interventions And Performance Of Police Force In Ondo State, Nigeria

Evidence abounds in literature that people are the preeminent resource that is key to the attainment of an organisational goal, and therefore performance of an organisation is contingent on the performance of its employees. To this end, the design and implementation of human resource management interventions has become a pivotal tool to provoke positive employees’ attitudinal and behavioural outcomes that, will in turn, occasion desired organisational performance outcomes. While empirical evidence of both significant and insignificant relationships between human resource management interventions, employee attitudinal outcomes, and performance has been registered in different contexts, however, evidence of such relationships has remained anecdotal in a Nigeria’s context where some institutions have undergone reforms to mitigate the crisis of underperformance. It is against this backdrop that this study sought to empirically investigate the relationship between human resource management interventions and performance of police force in Ondo State, Nigeria. The specific objectives sought by the study include: to determine the relationship between ability-enhancing interventions and performance of police force; to determine the relationship between motivation-enhancing interventions and performance of police force; to determine the relationship between opportunity-enhancing interventions and performance of police force; to establish the mediating effects of organisational commitment on the relationship between human resource interventions and performance of police force; and to establish the moderating effects of organisational justice on the relationship between human resource management interventions and performance of police force in Ondo State, Nigeria. The theories anchoring this study included Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity, Social Exchange, Affective Events, Self-Determination, and Resource-Based View theories. This study was guided by positivist approach, and both descriptive and explanatory research designs were employed. The study population comprised the entire 6,588 police personnel operating in all the 18 Local Government Areas in Ondo State, and employing Yamane’s formula a sample size of 377 respondents was determined.