The human resource is a key requirement for every organization to achieve its objectives
of organizational development. With rapidly changing demographics, globalization and
realignment of legislation in most countries, human resource management in all sectors
regardless whether in developed or developing world has been affected. More
specifically, legislation is nowadays used as a vehicle to manage gender inclusion,
disability and ethnic balance in recruitment of new employees. To honor the
constitutional provisions, public institutions are undergoing various reforms to present it
as being compliant with public interests in conformity with the dictates with the new law.
This paper aims at assessing the extent to which North Eastern county governments are
complying with the core constitutional recruitment provisions on gender balance,
representation of the disabled people, and incorporation of various ethnic groups during
recruitment of various county officials and to determine factors that explain compliance/
non-compliance with these constitutional provisions in the newly established North
Eastern counties. The study used mixed research design. The population of the study
consisted of members of County Public Service Boards in the three counties, majority
and minority leaders, County Secretaries, representatives of Maendeleo ya Wanawake
and People Living with Disability and members of the non-dominant ethnic communities.
This study applied purposive sampling technique to select respondents in this study. Both
primary and secondary data was collected. The study relied on both qualitative and
quantitative data. The study found there were low rate of representation of persons from
non-dominant ethnic communities and people living with disability, however, the
respective counties have demonstrated progressive compliance with the gender balance
rule. The study concluded that even though compliance with the three constitutional
provisions may not have been met altogether, the County Governments have
demonstrated improved measures to attain them. The study recommends that counties
should establish the ratio of dominant and non-dominant ethnic group so as to ensure that
the non-dominant groups are fully considered for relevant job opportunities. The study
also recommends that, counties should carry out sensitization and public awareness
programs aimed at reducing stereotypes and retrogressive cultural beliefs so as to
enhance employment opportunities for people representing the different segments of the
society