Green Performance Management and Balanced Scorecard: The Nigerian Civil Servants' Experience

The need to promote efficiency and sustainability of any organization has resulted in the use of green human resource management practices as well as the balanced scored card methodology. As the workers in federal civil service are obliged to promote efficiency, this work examined the level of use of green human resource management practices and balanced scorecard principles in selected ministries of the federal republic of Nigeria, using the descriptive survey design. It is interesting to discover that there is a predominant application of the green human resource management practices while the balanced scored cared methodology is still on a very marginal level. The study concludes that green performance management practices is very critical in any given establishment and that the use of balanced scorecard is still very minimal in the federal ministries studied, even though there are other evaluation measures for accessing the staff performance and overall output of the ministry. The study also concludes that the staff members especially the management level workers should ensure adequate integration of the green performance management practices in the respective ministries to boost productivity and efficiency. The study therefore recommends that recruitment processes of the ministry need to be transparent a more rewarding green practice of recognizing the staff members who distinguish themselves in various ways and a more robust application of the two critical elements in all the ministries of the federal civil service.