Training and Staff Development as Tools for Employees’ Productivity in Local Governments in Adamawa State
Abstract
Training and Development helps the organization to remove performance deficiencies, motivate employees to work towards achieving stated goals and objectives. Some organization carried out training and development programmes without identifying the need for that programme, that is to say there must be one factor that may necessitate the need to embark on training and development example: low productivity, high rate of labour turnover, lackofskills, lackofworkers’ morale, and lack of good attitudes towards employees’ duties. The objective of this study is to assess training and staff development as tools for employees’ productivity in Local Governments in Adamawa State. This study was a survey study; data for this study was obtained using structured questionnaire administered to six hundred (600) employees sampled by using convenience sampling and balloting in selecting the senatorial districts and theLocalGovernments. The data was subjected to Pearson Correlation, Spearman’s Correlation and Kendall’s Correlation to test the hypotheses respectively. The study reveals thatt raining and development helps the organization to achieve high productivity, improvement in employees’ skill, good employees’ attitude, highmorale and lower labour turnover rate. The study recommends that training and development should be clear so as to provide differences between current and expected performances, identifying the need to embark on training and development and develop action plan to improve employees’ performance.
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