Abstract: This study established the effect of employee acquisition plan on the performance of Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization. This study adopted a descriptive research design. The unit of analysis which is the study population consisted of the employees of Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization. The unit of observation which is the target population consisted of the 145 employees of Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization from CRI, TRI, SRI and VRI and the sample size was 145 respondents. The study adopted the census method to select respondents from the human resources/administrative department, research scientists and technical staff in the selected agricultural research institutes. Structured questionnaire containing close-ended questions were used to collect primary data for this study.