About the Book

Your Nigerian team said yes in the meeting. Then nothing changed.

If you lead people in Nigeria and you come from somewhere else, you have probably seen it. Good employees resign just as they become useful. Feedback is met with silence. Training does not seem to stick. Performance reviews end in surprise on both sides.

In most cases the workforce is not the problem. The gap is understanding. Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups, hundreds of languages, two major faiths and very different ways of working, often inside a single team. Mastering Human Resource Management in Nigeria shows you how to read those differences and turn that understanding into better performance, faster learning on the job and lower attrition.

Written for expatriate managers, foreign HR leaders and country heads, it maps the Nigerian workforce, explains the workplace patterns that shape behaviour, and gives you practical tools for hiring, onboarding, feedback, training, fair pay and retention. You also get a plain guide to the legal essentials for foreign employers, four practical scenarios, a first 90 days playbook for incoming expatriate managers, a twelve question diagnostic and a glossary of Nigerian workplace terms.

Nigerian HR practitioners who work between local staff and foreign leadership will find it just as useful.

The legal chapter is general information, not legal advice.