The Assessment of Implementation of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) in Nigeria: Their Success and Failures and Possible Remedies (Case Study of Selected Tertiary Institutions in Northeast)

The study Assess the Success and failures of Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) Policy implementation in three selected Tertiary institutions in three states in the north east region of Nigeria. The objectives of the study are to assess the success and failures of IPPIS implementation and to proffer remedies to the failures of IPPIS implementation. None of the Scholars in recent studies, to the best of my knowledge measures the impact of IPPIS policy implementation to x-ray the success and failures on public service in Nigeria a gap which this study intends to fill. The study used both qualitative and quantitative method of research. Data were collected through primary and secondary sources. The secondary was collected from annual reports, journals and survey data were obtained from 300 respondents using researcher-designed questionnaire validated by experts and shown to have a reliability coefficient of 0.90. Descriptive and ordinary least square regression statistical techniques were used in analyzing the data with the aid of Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. The study reveals that, there was positive and strong relationship between integrated payroll system and personnel cost and overhead cost. Also found that IPPIS has been able to mitigate problems associated with salary payment of public servants but the feat came with some pains or burdens to both public servants and IPPIS implementers. The study concluded that with the introduction of the IPPIS scheme, if properly implemented and managed, it will go a long way in eradicating ghost workers in the tertiary institutions Northeast Zone Nigeria. The study recommends among others that: the IPPIS should decentralize its activity, get more autonomy to operate effectively and the need for the remodification and redesigning of the software to accommodate more organizational flexibility and peculiarity