By Salau Jaafa
The importance of manpower development is more obvious given the growing complexity of the work environment, the rapid change in organizations and advancement in technology, among other things. Development helps to ensure that organizational members posses the knowledge and skills they need to perform their jobs effectively, take on new responsibilities, and adapt to changing conditions. Despite the recognition of the importance of manpower development by management experts and government as expressed in white papers on various reforms in Nigeria, the experiences of manpower training and development in the Nigeria public services has been more of ruse and waste. This paper examines the experience of Nigerian public services on manpower development with a view to understanding the problems being faced. It makes appropriate recommendations on how to ameliorate the situation.