There is increasing concern regarding the practice of employee poaching by banks and ICT firms in Nigeria. This paper titled "Employee Poaching within the Framework of Nigerian work organizations": an exposition; examines the concept and logic of employee poaching and its likely negative consequences. The correlates of employee poaching (EP) visa-vis Human capital Development (HCD), Succession Management (SM), and Organization Culture (DC) are also investigated. The questionnaire formed the chief instrument for data gathering. Responses of respondents (analyzed using PPMC), supplemented with comments and opinions of "elite interview" show amongst others that employee poaching is inversely related to HCD ( - 0.16), that practices and philosophy of employee poaching are opposed to the ideals and requirements of Succession Management (SM). However, EP practices may (at least in the short run) be beneficial to organizations with stagnant culture as it can serve as the needed tonic to shake things up. Therefore, organizations are advised to tread with caution before adopting employee poaching as a recruitment option.