Manpower Procurement Programme in Private Hospitals: Procedures and Problems

Abstract

Private hospitals are privately owned and run a business enterprise which employs human resources to provide health services so as to achieve their goals. In procuring such manpower, they adopt various strategies in their recruitment and selection processes and procedures. However, these processes and procedures vary according to the size of the hospitals and do not always conform to standard procedures. This is particularly the case in small private hospitals. In this study, it was found that medium and large private hospitals adopt manpower procurement procedures that largely conform to established standard while small private hospitals do not.

Keywords: Manpower Procurement, Private Hospitals, Nigeria