DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB-BASED MULTICRITERIA DECISION SYSTEM FOR NYSC DEPLOYMENT TO PLACES OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB-BASED MULTICRITERIA DECISION SYSTEM FOR NYSC DEPLOYMENT TO PLACES OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT

Abstract

Every year many corps members are posted to different parts of the country to serve their fatherland for one year. The deployment of corps members to their places of primary assignments is a much more difficult task. The camp-officials manually select corps members and deploy them to different organizations for their primary assignments. The manual method used is very cumbersome, time consuming, and also prone to errors and irregularities due to human nature. Irrespective of the time consumed in this manual deployment some of the corps members are being deployed to where their disciplines are irrelevant to their place of primary assignments thereby leading to their rejection and for making the service year wasted. In this research, a web-based multicriteria decision model was designed to considerably take care of the aforementioned problems. The multicriteria decision system provides an automated process for posting corps members to their places of primary assignments appropriately. The model also provide avenue for organisations to register their request for corps online and the corps can check their places of primary assignment from anywhere they are.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is a programme that involves Nigerian graduates in the development and integration of their country. There is no military conscription in Nigeria, but since 1973 graduates of universities and later polytechnics have been required to take part in the NYSC programme for national service (Marenin, 1990). It was explained that one of the expectations of the programme is that corps members should be posted to cities and states far from their homes and states of origin. They are expected to mix with people of other tribes, social and family backgrounds, to learn the culture of the indigenes in the place they are posted to. It is a way to engender unity in Nigeria, to help youths appreciate other ethnic groupings in the country. During the period of service, there is an "Orientation" period of approximately three weeks which is spent in a camp away from family and friends. There is also a "passing out ceremony" at the end of the year and primary assignment followed by one month of vacation. The programme also help in creating jobs opportunity for a lot of Nigerian youths. An NYSC forum dedicated to the NYSC members was recently built to bridge the gap amongst members serving across Nigeria and also an avenue for corps to share job information and career resources as well as getting loans from the National Directorate of Employment. The NYSC programme is a programme that prepares youths to work after tertiary education in universities, polytechnics and their equivalent. This program is suffering a lot of setbacks such as posting a graduate of science programme to non-science oriented place of primary assignment and like  wise other disciplines. Some corps members, due to lack of information, do not effectively perform their service. It is expected that this study would help to profer solution(s) to these problems.

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WEB-BASED MULTICRITERIA DECISION SYSTEM FOR NYSC DEPLOYMENT TO PLACES OF PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT

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