THE ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINING ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Measuring and equating sustain ability in an uncontrollable environment both in a short or long term performance is important issue globally especially from business perspective. The study sought to find out some important issues concerning “organizational or company sustain ability” and the role Human Resources is playing”. The study adopted the survey research design. It was conducted using information gathered from five most “sustainable” companies in Nigerian (First Bank, Cadbury, Unilever, NNPC and Coca cola). The population of the study was made up of 100 Human Resource managers from target manufacturing companies. The hypotheses were tested using the spearman's rank correlation coefficient that was subject to significant test using student t-test. The study established that a sustainable Human Resource Management involves developing employees, managing Human Resource issues, strategically taking employees on capacity building, Conducive work life, motivation, Job satisfaction, Training and Development, employment in the work environment among others are also considered very crucial.