THE IMPACT OF TRAINING ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY (A CASE STUDY OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN RIVERS STATE)
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THE IMPACT OF
TRAINING ON EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY
(A CASE STUDY
OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN RIVERS STATE)
ABSTRACT
The
impact of training on the employees’ productivity; a case study of the selected
manufacturing companies in rivers state. However, the purpose of this research
of this research is to investigate the impact of training on employees’
productivity using some of the firms in Port Harcourt. In order to achieve this
purpose, questionnaire where distributed to employees of four things selected
in Port Harcourt. There were a total of sixty (60) questionnaire made of twenty
seven (27) questions each distributed to four (4) firms. The questionnaires were
distributed to both senior and junior staff in order to draw the required
response from the respondents and to facilitate easy analysis of data.
Secondly, because training is not only designed for the upper cadre along and
thirdly to make sure that all calibers of workers are evenly represented. From
the data analysis and hypothetical test, it is found that there is a
significance relationship between training and employees productivity. Also
that the performance of workers who receive training are higher than those who
do not receive training using Chi-square (X2) test at 0.05 level of
significance. Sequel to this, a number of recommendations have been made and
they are as thus, that every firm should make it as a point of duty to embark
on training programmes. Firms should also try the best they could to develop
good appraisal system on time to identify when employees need to go for
training etc.
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Declaration i
Dedication ii
Acknowledgment iii
Abstract iv
CHAPTER
ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
of the study 1
1.2 Statement
of problem 2
1.3 Research
questions 3
1.4 Objectives
of study 4
1.5 Significance
of study 5
1.6 Scope and
limitation of study 5
1.7 Operational
definition of terms 5
1.8 Organization
of study 6
CHAPTER
TWO
2.0 Literature
review and theoretical framework 7
2.1 Introduction 7
2.2 Concept
of training 7
2.3 Training
development productivity 13
2.4 The objectives
of training 14
2.5 Training
and productivity of employees in Nigeria 15
2.6 Institution/machinery
of manpower training in Nigeria 17
2.7 Determination
of training programme 17
2.8 Problem
issues in training porgramme 23
CHAPTER
THREE
3.0 Method of
study 24
3.1 Introduction 30
3.2 Data collection 30
3.3 Sampling
procedure 31
3.4 Research
design 32
3.5 Method of
analysis 33
CHAPTER
FOUR: DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
4.1 Introduction 34
4.2 Data presentation 34
4.3 Data analysis 35
4.4 Hypothesis
testing 39
4.5 Discussion
of the result/implications 47
CHAPTER
FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Introduction 49
5.2 Summary
of major findings 49
5.3 Summary
of major findings 50
5.4 Recommendations 52
References 54
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
For
employee to improve in their productive potential have been always one of their
major concerns of the employers of labour. It is a fact that all businessmen
are all to maximize profit. Although profits can only be maximized when
potentials of employees are improved to increase productivity giving the
increase in the demand of the firm’s products.
In
the case of micro-economy, employees productivity creates a powerful impact in
a country’s total output economic welfare. Infact, the public and private sectors
of our economy depend on the caliber of the nation’s manpower resources. The
days of working by trail have disappeared.
Today,
an increasing attention is being focused on the role of employees development
and training on social and economic advancement of the nation. With the drive
towards technological advancement in Nigeria, training of employee inevitable.
For example, the conversion to the use of electronic computers and
telecommunications have virtually made very industry to change their operations.
Thus,
one of the crucial functions of the executive and of course the personnel
administration is to ensure that employees without the necessary skills are
helped to acquired them while those who do are helped to update them (Nwachukwu
1980).
The
output of any employee depends on the skills he has. Therefore, it training is
added to the already existing skill, the result is increase in output.
However,
the above discussion is centered on the importance of training on the
employees’ productivity.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
Generally,
the story in the selected manufacturing companies Rivers State is that of poor
performance inspite of encouragement from government and efforts of private
sectors (Cookey 1998). We have discovered over the years that private firms and
government sectors hardly produce beyond certain points as if there are
physical negative that are impossible for them to cross.
Infact,
any employee that is not properly trained is bound to be frustrated with his
jobs and the end product result will be the firms low productivity.
Here,
in Rivers State as one of the most industrialized state in Nigeria, employment
of workers by the oil companies in the state in various positions are becoming
very difficult due to lack of trained employees to occupy the professional
positions. The people of the state suffer and the entire country face
employment problem as the industrializing firm resort to making used of train
employees from the western world, and this condition results failures in our
economy.
1.3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
This
study shall be guided by the following research questions
1. Do companies embark on the job training?
2. Does training contribute to workers’
productivity?
3. It
there any relationship between trained workers on productivity?
4. Are trained
employees more capable of performing than untrained ones?
5. To what extent do such training help the
employers of labour?
1.4 OBJECTIVES OF STUDY
This
study shall seek to achieve the following
1. To
find out the relationship between training and employees potential.
2. To find
out the contribution of training to workers’ productivity.
3. To find
out the output of trained and untrained employees comparatively.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
This
work will be of good use to decision makers especially the potential and
practicing entrepreneur, human resources managers etc. of commercial and
selected manufacturing firms in the
state as it delves into the necessities of training in improving their
employees productivity.
The
result of the research will also be useful to the government in order to see
the training of her citizens as a yardstick for controlling their various
parastatals and abhors unemployment problems emanating from lack of training.
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF STUDY
This
research project would cover the study of selected manufacturing companies in
Rivers State. And the scope would be limited to the impact of training on
employees’ productivity in the manufacturing companies.
1.7 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Training: This is a process of
acquisition of basic and new skills and the development of old ones in order to
be effective and efficient in carrying out assigned duties.
2. Productivity: This referred to as the
output of labour force on aggregated form.
3. Employees: these are the numbers of persons employed to
perform a given task. It is also regarded as the human resources, labour force
worker etc.
1.8 ORGANIZATION OF STUDY
This
work was been arrange into five phase or chapters.
Chapter
one would focus into the historical background of the topic under study, such
as statement of study, research question, objective of study etc. chapter two
(2) deal with the literature reviews, using a logical way of presenting and
historical perspective that relate to the project topic under research. Chapter
(3) is concern with the methodological approach and its related issues. Chapter
(4) would be data presentation and analysis finding and discussion and chapter
(5) is based on summary, conclusion and recommendation on the research work.
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