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The study examined referral recruitment and workers efficiency: perspective of Nigerian Ports Authority. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of referral recruitment on workers efficiency. The signaling theory of recruitment was employed while staff of Nigerian Ports Authority was the sample population. The study generated primary data through questionnaires distributed to 350 staff and 345 questionnaires were returned. Multiple regressions analysis was used to test the hypothesis. Findings showed that, referral recruitment had positive and significant effect on workers efficiency and organizational performance. The study concludes that referral recruitment improves workers efficiency and commitment to duties and recommends that referral recruitment should be employed as a channel of recruiting new resourceful hands into organizations since it leads to higher productivity and general organizational success.References
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