ABSTRACT.

This book assessed the performance of municipal government in Cameroon especially in TikoMunicipal Council, using the yardstick of the presidential decrees behind their creation and existing theories of local government in Cameroon. Most essentially, contentious issues regarding corrupt practice most especially as they pertain to public accountability, at the grassroots level where it is critically explored that give data From existing literature on municipal government administration and other secondary sauce, these investigation reveal that at initial State, municipal council in Cameroon likeTiko municipality contributed in some ways to develop and transformation of both the city and the municipal area .in Tiko such contribution include refuge disposals all over the municipal community and other strategic location across the community development of the rural areas through provisions and construction of farms to market road which facilitate the transformation of food stuff from the rural areas to the city. in any municipal organization like Tiko. Tiko local Government does not guarantee or enhanced performance and increase productivity in with well manage personnel. Human resource and personnel department of an organization is there for the attainment of the organization goal these is because all the organizational activities are initiated and determine by the human resources and personnel management who make up Tiko municipal organization.These institution has planned official , computers and automatic marching and other instrument a firm uses  for human efforts put in place by the  human resource and personnel Management of the municipality, however the ability put in place by personnel in Tiko municipality are used to attain the organization goal .The Tiko Municipality as an institution in local government is not exempted ,the important of local government in Cameroon must be emphases because without personnel department and responsibilities put in place these department cannot function very  well. These departments are in charge of human resource and personnel management that manage their resource very well so as to attain the organization goal. In this light they also examine the importance of the activity carried out by human resource and personnel management department of tiko municipal council.

CHARPTER ONE

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDIES

The municipal government, is a system of government that is specifically designed to Bering governance closer to the people at the grassroots level, these need is to enhance efficiency and workability of the system that has led to the reform in the municipal government administration in Cameroon. Inspire of these reform the system has neither brought the much desired results especially in transforming the rural areas in to city. Moreover, there’s more check which thrive in Cameroon. One of the areas which the system has suffered several dislocations is in the field of human resources and personnel management, that are in charge of capacity building and staff welfare, these department has helped to enforce low morale in many workers resulting in low productivity, favoritism and corruption in order to sanitize the system. Therefore, there’s need to keep strictly to the standard rules in relation to proper staff placement in Tiko local Government (TLG)ugunna {1996}

Human resource and personnel capacity building and staff welfare is a basic roles in human resources and personnel management in Tiko.the universal acceptance of the critical role of personnel in the achievement of organization goal and the realization and appreciation of the various exogenous and endogenous variable that informed, determine order and finally condition personnel activities, that leads to the establishment of department of human resource and personnel management in any municipal organization.

This department of human resources and personnel management administrative unite perform specific function among which are staff placements. the importance of human resource and personnel capacity in attaining organization goal can’t by any way over enhance coherence as it has been amplified by (Ofoegru 1985) who arrived that a firm can still mobilize all its capacity input and still be out of production, the decisions to start capital mobilization is a human resource and personnel management decision, which is an inanimate factor of production into single coherent and operational production. A System is human acts conceive by human genius and realized by human efforts. These process of determine goals making effort on a day-to-day basis maintenance and services equipment and so on. Fall on the personnel department in municipal organization. These there for mean that people are the main instrument used in realizing organization objective.

  Having established the importance of personnel is necessary to stress that in serving an organization such as local government, the goal of personnel in serving organizational goal becomes more significant, hence labor becomes more intensive in municipal organization and this labor are more organized and motivated to that same extend. These enable the municipal government to successfully fulfill all his numerous responsibilities, in order to remedy the ill of Cameroon local government, the mayor should first remedy it personnel problem as enhance personnel management promote and ensure healthy local government administration (Ogunna, 1996)

It is generally assumed that management is the back bone of all business organization, be it private or public organization. These assumption holds good even when the business is of a philanthropic mature. Human resources and personnel management is considered as an important department in Tiko municipality used in the management of employees these study access the selection and requirements policy of Tiko council as an aspect of  personnel management towards. the enhancement of the socio-humans resource economic development of the municipality, finding has showed that municipal government used it human resources and personnel department to develop recruitment and selection practice, such as training, performance appraisal, compensation, taking into account the need of the specific job to cover employee potential and their performance that will improve resulting today globalization and work force, environment diversity public sector performance is determined by the organization capacity, to obtain humans resource with the necessary and ability pulse compensation, these is because employee are in charge of taking organizational tasks and responsibilities in order to attain organization goal. Employee performance is defined as an employee behavior in the work place and how well they do the tasks that have been assigned to them. Employee performance also refer to the collective action perform by employee to achieve organization goal. According to Waris (2015) individual employee performance is measured by the quality and amount of output as well as the timely completion of obligation.

The system has brought much desired result especially in transforming the local area and changing corruption which thrive in Cameroonian, some of the area where the file has helped to enforce low morale in many works, resulting in low productive favoritism and corruption.

In other to sanitize the system, we therefore keep to standard rules in relation to proper staffing and placement in all departments in local government. Human resource building and staff well fare is the basic roll of personnel management. The  universal acceptance of the  critical role of personnel in the achievement of organization goal and the realization of the various activities and the realization of appreciation of the various endorsement of variable which inform determine order and final condition of personnel in the achievement of organization goal and the realization and achievement of various variable  which inform, determine order and finally condition personnel and human resource Management and it function in organizational  placement of the staff. The important of human resource management in attaining  the organization objective cannot be the local government system is specially design to Bering governance closer to the people at the grass roots level.

 According to Ofoeghn (1985) who explain that for an organization to mobilize it capital input and still come out of production, because the decision to start the capital mobilization is till the decision for the personnel management, the assumption of these factors of production into a single and a periodic system is a human resources management fact.

 Hence it is a critical process of determine goals, making investment decision distracting work efforts on a day-to-day basis, maintenance and services equipment fall under the person of an organization. These further explain that people are the main instrument used in an organization objective.

 The important of personnel in an organization is necessary in any municipal administration, the role play by personnel in the attainment of organization goal becomes More significant, local government is a more labor intensive government to a certain extent, the labor force are more organized and motivated to a certain extent, local government can successfully fulfill all it numerous responsibility, to remedy the ills of local government  administration in Cameroonian these is because the local authority should look for remedy to enhance personnel management and promote healthy local government administration haven’t shown that effective management of human resources is a fundamental to the survival of any organization who desired to survive, in other to put in place police, program, and practice that can Ensure optimal acquisition and utilization of human resources. this study there for center on Tiko municipal council, that appreciate, the overriding benefits attained from proper management of human resources on the local government productivity. Humans resource management can be defined as the process of determine manpower requirements and the means of meeting those requirements in other to carry out the integrated plans of the organization.

According to Marry Packers Follet who define human resources management [HRM] as the act of getting things done through people, but people are complex in their perception, their way of behaving, and their interaction about life, to manage is to forcas, to plane, to lead, and to organize, and to command, and coordinate, is the force which lead guide and direct organization to accomplish it predetermined goals. According to (Henry Fayola) losses can begotten at all levels of the organization because Manager achieve organization goal by arranging for other to perform whatever task they want to perform correctly. not forgotten, according to Herbert A Simon in his explanation of administration, who further throw more light by saying when two or more people corporate to roll a stone that neither could have move, the rudiments of administration are taking place. He wants further to explain that these simple task has the two basic characteristics of what has come to be called administration. There is a purpose moving the stone and there is cooperative actions several person using combined strength to accomplish something that could not have been done without such a combination. in these basis Herbert Simon and colleagues defined administration as activities of group cooperating to accomplish common goal.

 Human resources agent ranges of activities such of team spirit, team leadership, grievance, handling and employment counseling, personnel management, function requirements, and selection, employee development, performance appraisal, disciplinary motivation and management development. It has been very important because of the dynamic nature of man, that’s man has the ability to think and to reasons, which enable Him to make choices in every given situation. unlike other choices that are tactics which do not move on less they are ask to move,e.g. land, capital, and machinery, these sauce are been manage by human being in other to Bering about organization growth and development.

  The important of human Resource in an organization has led to the unproductive results been experienced in such organization.

The management of human resources is crucial to the growth and survival of any organization particularly those of the 21st century who encounter on regular basis, human resources is the most difficult to manage. Human has been their faculty for reasoning, and their ability to respond or resist the various type of stimulus that may be considered intolerable.

   Never the less, of all resource needed by an organization, human beings is been combine to the other resource to make the organization efficient and effective. Forexample, one which is usually scared could not come on its own in an organization/, sometime huge sums of money could disappear into tine air of not managed properly by human beings and these could nail the organization concerned. Similarly, land may be expensive and the location may be front with problem, but once it is acquired with efficient, people around it can be profitable utilized. In the same vein materials are obviously needed to make the combination of land and money meaningful yet without the right type of people in the system, the material the people and the land cannot be handled in a way that desired result will be obtained.

Human resources are the best, the most dynamic, complex and unpredictable for the survival of any organization is largely enhance or guarantee by the ability of efficiency, according to some scholar who draw more enhances on humans resources management is to attract, retain, motivate, and develop employee capacity. They also acknowledge that much attention should be given to human resource management in this 21century.According to Giwa (1990). Without the organization and management of human resources, perhaps there will be no national, state, local government and life would be very nasty and short, there for it is with full endorsement with these inescapable truths, with local government, in the Cameroon plane of action. It is categorically that, since Africans greatest assets is it’s human resource, full mobilization and efficient utilization of labor force for local government development and social progress should be a major instrument of development.

 IN Cameroon, the legislature and the regulatory instrument that empower local authorities to understand socio-economic development through the management of available resource in their specific areas. these is seen in article 55(2) of LAW NO 2008/001of 14april 2008, creating and organizing councils, which, stipulates that, decentralized territorial communities, otherwise known as the councils are moral persons with public right. They also have the administrative and financial right for the management of local interest they administer themselves freely by elected councils and condition fixed by the law. The TIKO local government therefore has the responsibility of managing its human resources, through the recruitment and selection of workers, to enhance the socio economic development within its juricdiction..

 Generally article 55 of law NO 2008/001of 14th April 2008 provides that, the state shall transfer to council according to condition fixed by the law. For the competency in necessary matter for their economic, health educational, cultural, and sportive development. This underscores the fact that, the TIKO municipal council has the legitimate right to recruit and select workers ranking to a certain level and equally make sure it suits their salaries.

 Mindful of the 2004law, governing local council will include. Rural development, health and social development, hygiene and sanitation planning to administer local affairs. Thus, it should be noted that low NO 018/2004 of July 2004, saw the transformation of the Tiko council from the TIKO local jurisdiction. It is obvious that some organization encounter low productivity, inspire of improper management of it human resources however municipal administration has not really been impressive to wards rapid decrease in production.

Inspire of government policies used at all levels as an instrument of development at local government According to article 52 of14april 2008it states that local authority in Cameroon has so far had little or no impact in developing their locality, the impact of local government depends largely on the system of human resources management. That is human resources management is the practice of recruitment, hiring, deploying and managing an organization employees, that is the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policy relating to their skills needed to achieve organizational objective.

 The municipal government as one of the oldest institution in history is predominantly made up of human resources and personnel management and other departments. The expediency for the creation of municipal council anywhere in the world is for the need to facilitate development at the grass roots level that will see the important of human resources and personnel management is the function of its ability to generate sense of belongingness and safety and satisfaction amongst its population at all levels. All form of political regime has done so far is to ensure the attainment of these goal, such strategy is to ensure municipal administrative development and political efficiency is found in the concepts and practice of human resources and personnel management in these mode of municipal government, has   essentially regarded as the parts to and guarantor of national integration of humans RESAUCE and personnel development is the creation of municipal government. However its ability to facilitate an avenue through which government and the people relates quickly than any other means in resolving issues that may have heat the system. Local government have perceive as the pancreas of the diverse problem of the diverse people of the diverse culture

 As important as the seting of municipal government has been sure to some impediment that have been infringing on it performance and function in recent time. These impediments rangers from political but under interference of the highest level of government to human resources and personnel Management department to inadvertently well trained and qualify personnel. These methods of human resources and personnel management also observed a philosophical commitment to democratic participation in government process at the grass roots level, these implied legal and administrative decentralization of authority power and personnel of a higher level of government to a community with a will of its own performing specific function as with the wider national frame work 

LANGUAGHE USED IN THE MUNICIPALITY.

The complex linguistics background used in Cameroon was occasioned by different historical occurrence Cameroon came in contact with. German in 1884 and with English and French in 1914-1918 and still 1960-1961, and these languages have been come official languages of Cameroon. Prior to this, Cameroon used an emerging pigging for her contact with photogenes in the 16™ century and English with the contact of the missionaries in Cameroon in the 19 centaury (Ngoh,1979) the plethora of mother Tongues and emerging pidgin within the complex linguistics situations easily touch the coastal town like Tiko Municipality Area.