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| RECRUITMENT PROCESS AND STAFF PERFORMANCE IN THE MINISTRY OF BASIC AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, THE GAMBIA.
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DAWDA CEESAY
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Abstract:
This paper examines the recruitment process and staff performance in the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE). This is done with a particular view of knowing how the staff is recruited in MoBSE and knowing the relationship between the recruitment process and staff performance. It is also aimed at knowing some of the basic measures that MoBSE is supposed to take to enhance good staff performance. The study adopted a survey research design with the aim of describing how MoBSE recruitment is done for schools and administration across The Gambia. The total population of the study as of August 2022, is 17,882 (Seventeen Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight-Two staff), which included all the staff on the MoBSE payroll. The sampling technique used to obtain the sample size is the Krejcie and Morgan, (1970) sampling method, leading to a sample size of 376 staff members. The source of the study’s primary data is obtained from the responses of the sampled population. The findings of the study reveal that there is a close relationship between the way staff are recruited to work in MoBSE and their performance. Also, most of the respondents attributed poor staff performance to poor salaries and lack of motivation from the central level of administration. The lack of awareness of certain policy documents by many staff members is also another leading factor in staff’s poor performance. Therefore, there is a high need for MoBSE to consider and prioritize the welfare of staff and provide them with good motivation, incentives, and opportunities for professional development, in a quest to enhance effective service delivery for the education sector.
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