This paper is a mixture of desk and field study. The paper focused on Human Resource Outsourcing in Banking sector looking at UBA Bank of Guinea. Based on literature review and empirical evidence corrected through inter-views from UBA Bank officials, the paper defines outsourcing concept, and highlights impact of outsourcing on organization, and on employees. The re-searcher then delves in issues areas looking at Human resource models, and then highlights strategic reasons advanced for outsourcing; while discussing economic reasons for outsourcing, vendor selection and decision making in outsourcing process. The paper concludes presenting factors that may influ-ence human resource outsourcing decisions.
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