This study was on the effect of work force planning on management of government projects in Enugu State. The specific objectives were: to ascertain the relationship between effective recruitment and selection plan and Enugu State government projects planning, to determine the effect of talent management plans on Enugu State government projects execution, to ascertain the extent to which effective training and development plans will contribute to Enugu State government projects control and evaluation. The data for this study were collected from two major sources; primary and secondary sources. The entire population of the study was used as the sample size. The research instruments used were structured questionnaire and oral interview schedule. The validity of the research instrument was tested using content analysis while the reliability of the research instrument was tested using test re test method. The result of the test gave a reliability co-efficient of 0.87 which was good. Data for the work was presented using simple table and analysis was done using simple percentages. The three hypotheses were tested using chi-square. The findings showed that there is a positive relationship between effective recruitment/selection plan and project planning in Enugu State government projects, X2 (4, n = 40) = 64.255, P = 0.05, that talent management plans to a large extent affects project executions in Enugu State government projects, X2 (4, n = 40) = 31.75, P = 0.05, that effective training and Development plans contribute positively to effective project control and evaluation in Enugu State government projects, X2 (4, n = 40) = 50, P = 0.05. The study concludes that workforce planning provides the basis for a systematic approach to assessing the number and type of people needed by an organization and ensuring that people considerations are taken into account in business plans. It recommends among others that Government of Enugu State should ensure that recruitment and selection plan should be made part of the government policy as this will have positive effect on its project planning.
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