CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Management of human resources is that functions of the enterprises which provides for effective utilization of people to achieve both the objectives of the enterprises and satisfaction and development of employees.
The survival of any organization depends on the proper management of its materials financial and human resources.
The management of all these human resources is in the hands of destined human beings. Human resources management in the collaboration with other resources makes a business or an organization to run effectively.
But the most important of these is man; people are keys elements an organization activity focuses on. How well the man feels on an organization with in on doubt determine his productivity. Therefore the concern of every organization should centered on the satisfaction of man.
An organization man produce or render services like any other organization in the same business with the same resources employed or utilized, but they may differ in productivity as a result of efficient human resources management.
The importance of human resources management in relation to productivity in an organization ‘can not be over emphasized because it’s the life more and soul or heart beat of every organization.
In any organization resources are basically grouped in two i.e. human and material resources, among these resource desired for the provision of goods and services, the most difficult to the manager its human resource, regardless of what product or service an organization provides and no matter what it’s size, age or location.
It must procure human resources in order to remain viable. Further, if the organization is to survive, it must design programmes to develop it’s human resources to their fullest capacities and maintain on going worker commitment.
Human resource management as it practiced today recognized the dynamic and interaction of personal function with each other and with objectives of the organization.
Most important it recognizes that human resource planning must be coordinated closely with organization strategies and related planning functions.
As a result effort in human resources management is being directed towards providing support for achievement of profit of government organization. Human resources planning is clearly not just concerned with numbers. Plans for training, redeployment, promotion and productivity all indicates the importance of getting three right staffs in the right jobs, as well as the right numbers. For personal or human resources to enhance higher productivity.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In most our organization today, productivity of workers is far below expectation, business many organization incur a lot of lost as a form of wastage caused by management of the organization. In which workers are unable to perform their various job effectively to enhance productivity. Another problem face by industry is lack of due training and development programmes, in job dissatisfaction most employees don’t find it easy in doing the job assign to them in the because the don’t have the necessary skills and talent needed to make them handle construction job effectively. Another diver stating problem is increase rate of labor turn over in the industry as result of the workers inability to satisfying and accomplishing the construction task assign to them on time. Another problem is the construction industry lack of adequate and competent human resource department who can bring adequate productivity to the industry.
The above mentioned problems have nothing to offer the industry and rather than decrease in service deliver which in turn effects the overall enhancement of the productivity. The only or one of the major solutions to these problems is for the industry to embark on adequate training and development programmes, and to initiate adequate and proper human resources management departments which will help in selecting the adequate workers that will embark the industry to enhance higher productivity and also good construction work.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
To find out the prospects of human resource management in enhancing higher productivity.
To determine how productivity can be enhanced through an efficient human resource management.
To examine the extent to which human resource management have impacted on employees’ performance.
To ascertain whether effective human resources management have had any impact on the company’s goals and objectives.
To ascertain whether team work and cooperation serve as a means of effective human resources management.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What is the prospect of human resource management in enhancing higher productivity?
Has productivity been enhanced through an efficient human resources management?
To what extent has human resources management impacted on employees’ performance?
Have effective human resources management had any impact on the company’s goals and objective?
Does team work and cooperation serve as mean of effective human resources management.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Considering the significance of the study you will observe that all organization whether governmental or non governmental, profit or non profit cannot over look the relevance of effective and efficient utilization of human resource.

The study is of immense benefits to managers, employment of personal and human resource of officers of Sintax construction industries policies, it examines personnel policies, on recruitment, on selection, placement, training and development.
Equally I highlighted the need for good human resource management in Sintax Construction Company which aimed at total customer satisfaction at higher productivity.
The study is also relevant to academicians, industry and to society at large, since it attempts to ascertain in areas of human resource management in Nigeria.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The focus of the study is the prospects of human resource management in an industry or organization and how it enhance higher productivity in Sintax Construction industry. In a study in this nature it could have been better much elaborated to cover almost all the Sintax branches across the country.

LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The researcher decided to limit the research work to Kaduna head office as a result of financial constraints, other problems include issue of adequate information because most of their information were not stored in the computer, they are only filed manual and which can easily got damaged or lost incase of any inconsistencies.

1.8.1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Sintax is a team of result oriented, innovative, stand alone and upwardly mobile professionals drawn from diverse fields as architecture, engineering, surveying, accountancy and information technology.
Sintax limited was incorporated as a private limited liability company by corporate affairs under the companies and allied matters Act, 1990 on 19th August, 1995, with registration number 279348.
Sintax limited are pacesetters in consultancy, building and civil engineering construction, and properly development who boldly and totally broke away from the Nigerian tradition in other to achieve commitment to the tradition of excellence and completely re-building the Nigerian environment. This bold and total break with Nigerian tradition could not be made without courage, without sincere, faith that the end justifies then means.