Recruitment Strategies and Commercial Banks' Employees' Performance in Nigeria
here is a growing empirical evidence that human resource management practices play an important role in attracting and retaining high quality workforce. One of such practices singled out to have an influence on employee performance is "Recruitment". This study therefore aims to investigate the influence of recruitment strategies on commercial banks' employees' performance in Minna. The study is both exploratory and quantitative. The exploratory part of the study provides a deeper understanding of the concept of "Recruitment" through review of related literature on the subject matter, while the quantitative part adopted a survey research method. Quantitative data was collected using questionnaires which were self-administered to the operational staff of some randomly selected commercial banks in Minna. The study's sample size was 212 selected from the population of 450 respondents using a simple random sampling technique. Data collected was analyzed using pearson chi-square test. Findings revealed a Pearson chi-square value of 17.89, df (18.31) and p-value (0.041). Not significant at p > 0.05. Meaning that, there is a significant relationship between recruitment strategies and employee performance. Findings of this study would be beneficial to Human Resource managers of commercial banks, recruitment agencies, and the academic community
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