Abstract: The ghost worker syndrome has been a menace across all tiers of the Zimbabwean government and has led to the government spending billions of dollars resulting from money being siphoned through payments to non-existing employees. Consequently, the geometric annual increase in the wage bill gobbling about 97% of the fiscus has become worrisome, hence the Zimbabwean labour net has become saturated and the nation's economy being put in absolute jeopardy and quandary. This paper therefore examines the effects of the ghost workers' syndrome and how the instrumentality of integrated personnel payroll and information system (IPPIS) could address the menace in the public service. The researcher will elicit data from both primary and secondary sources. The data was analysed using the simple percentages, frequency tables, mean score and spearman rank order correlation technique. The paper concludes that ghost workers syndrome is highly imminent in the public service, thus recommends that the IPPIS should be adopted in the public service to ensure a virile economy through enhanced productivity.
Keywords: Personnel, ghost workers, payroll, information system, corruption.
Title: A Paper on Ghost Worker Syndrome: A Panacea to Zimbabwe's Bloated Public Service
Author: HERBERT MOYO
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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