Monitoring Recruitment and Selection Practice: A Therapeutic Strategy for Quality Service Delivery in Nigerian Public Universities

The major objective of this paper was to assess the extent to which monitored recruitment and selection practice could enhance quality service delivery by lecturers in Nigerian public universities. Exploratory research design was adopted so as to facilitate gathering of data that formed the basis of judgments and conclusions. Nigerian public universities were established and managed by government (federal or state), to provide educational services as well as embark on research for purpose of general development. Acquisition and management of relevant resources was sine qua non for effective functioning of the institutions. The decreasing quality of performance in public universities is believed by certain individuals and unions to be the consequence of infrastructural decay, which the envisaged improvement in government funding and condition of service could possibly be the panacea. This paper uncovers the maxim that infrastructural renaissance and staff welfare, devoid of concomitant staff quality checks especially at the verge of recruitment and selection exercise would rather result in fiasco. It was recommended among others that uniform recruitment and selection policy and procedures be formulated; also, the implementation must be monitored by external agencies of government.