The Impact Of Staff Training And Development On The Enhancement Of Growth And Productivity Of An Organization (A Case Study Of Rain Oil Company Delta State)

The Impact Of Staff Training And Development On The Enhancement Of Growth And Productivity Of An Organization (A Case Study Of Rain Oil Company Delta State)
Abstract
This research work was designed to study training and development of employees in service organization. This study titled “An Evaluation of the effect of manpower training and development in organizations. A case study of Rain Oil Company, Delta State, is of/with the view of finding out the way by which training and development can be conducted. The objective of the study is to highlight the advantages of human resource training and development and recommend an appropriate measure that could help improve the current human resource training programmes.
Relevant data for this research work were collected from both primary source and secondary source of data. A descriptive method was used for this study. The total population of the staff in the organization is 250 out of which questionnaires were drawn from staff of the organization which constitute a sample size of 154. The statistical instrument used in testing the validity of the hypothesis was chi – square. Among the major findings of the work was that training and development programme improve productivity and better performance. The research therefore recommended that there should be a free flow of information to enable all the staff to be aware of the training and development programme available to them both internally and externally.
Table of Content
Preliminary Page(s)
- Title Page
- Certification
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Abstract
- Table of content
Chapter One
Introduction
- 1.1 Background of the study
- 1.2 Statement of the problem
- 1.3 Objective of the study
- 1.4 Research Questions
- 1.5 Statement of Hypothesis
- 1.6 Significance of the study
- 1.7 Scope and limitation of the study
- 1.8 Limitation of the study
- 1.9 Definition of terms
- 1.10 Historical profile of BEDC
Chapter Two
Review of Related Literature
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Manpower training and development
- 2.3 Factors that trigger manpower training and development
- 2.4 Formal training
- 2.5 Aims of manpower training
- 2.6 Benefits of manpower training and development
- 2.7 Method of manpower training
- 2.8 Benefits of training to organization
- 2.9 Benefits of training to employees
- 2.10 Essence of training and development
- 2.11 Current challenges in training and development
- 2.12 Problems of training and development programme
Chapter Three
Research Design
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Research design
- 3.3 Population of the study
- 3.4 Sample size/sampling technique
- 3.5 Methods/sources of data collection
- 3.6 Instrument for data analysis
- 3.7 Validity
- 3.8 Reliability
Chapter Four
Data Presentation and Analysis
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Distribution and Collection Of Questionnaire
- 4.3 Test of Hypothesis
Chapter Five
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
- 5.1 Summary of findings
- 5.2 Conclusion
- 5.3 Recommendation
- References
- Appendix
- Questionnaire
Chapter One
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Organizational effectiveness rests on the efficient and effective performance of workforce that makeup the organization. The efficient and effective performance of the workforce in turn, rest on the richness of the knowledge, skills and abilities possessed by the workforce. Manpower training and development in most organizations is a continuous act/exercise. The inexorable march of time and the ceaseless glamour for social change combine to make adaptability and continuing preparation of the workforce as inevitable as the initial acquisition of knowledge and skills. This cannot happen if employees training and development do not occur in an enterprise. In other to maximize the productivity and efficiency of the organization, every executive, manager or supervisor in a public or private organization has the responsibility and indeed the bounding duty to ensure the development of their employees who have requisite knowledge and expertise.
Manpower training and development should be based on a need analysis derived from a comparison of “actual performance’’ and behavior with “required performance’’ and behavior. Manpower training and development is one of the major ways organization invests in the workforce for greater return today and even in the foreseeable future.
Training is like sharpening an existing skill in order to reflect the trends in technology and other social –cultural environmental changes of an organization. Productivity is the goal of today’s competitive business world and training can be a spring board to enhance productivity. The aim is to enable them contribute their full measure to the welfare, health and development of the organization (Onah 1993). The main objective of training and development in service organization is to increase efficiency of employees with the resulting increase in corporate productivity. This accounts for why a large number of fund and time is expected by organization at one period or the order in the improvement of the skills of their employees at various levels.
The principal intention of training according to Akpan (1982), is to equip people with the knowledge required to qualify them for a particular position of employment, or to improve their skills and efficiency in the position they already hold.
Manpower development on the other hand, implies growth and the acquisition of wide experience for future strategic advantages of the organization.
Manpower training and development therefore, improves the effectiveness and efficiency of the employee. Therefore, the aim of this research is to know the current state, nature, procedure and method of training and development used by the Rain Oil Company, Delta State for their employees and let’s not forget that any organization that has no plan for the training and development of its staff is less than dynamic for learning is a continuous process and acquired skills get obsolete when the environment changes. Also, a popular caption in the field of personnel management says, “If you think training and development are expensive try ignorance’’. While training and development prosper organization, ignorance destroys it. Therefore, workers like machines must be updated on constant basis or else, they end up becoming obsolete or misfit.
1.2 Statement Of The Problem
Despite the strategic dimension of manpower investment, most organization in Nigeria remains inert. Life in such organization is a sheer drudgery. Initiative is most often discouraged due to an environment that neither empowers nor enables the individuals to accomplish anything.
It is generally observed that whenever there is a resources crunch in Nigerian organizations, the first axe falls on human resources in terms of retrenchments and cuts in manpower development and training budgets. Employee are said to be a “soul” of the organization, but there are treated as the “sole” of the organization to tramp with.
Organizations are hostile to their people, why are they so? Why are organizations more concerned with profits than with the well being of their people? Why are human resources regarded as part of organizational problems instead of being regarded as part of the solution to its problem? Why do organizations continue to seek solutions to their competitive challenges by downsizing, rightsizing, outsourcing and weakening their organizational culture, rather than putting their people first and drawing from extensive research, which confirms that organizations do gain enduring competitive advantage through investment in their people?
Even when there appears to be a general consensus that manpower investment is a strategy for organizational competitive advantage. Nigeria organizations think and perform differently. Indeed neglect of human resources is the order of the day in most Nigerian organizations. Can it be that the claim that manpower investment is a potent strategy for organizational competitive advantage is in the Nigerian environment, an invalid one?
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The purpose for this research is to probe into the evaluation of the effect of manpower training and development in service organization using Rain Oil Company, Delta State as a case study with a view to find out how the organization is performing in terms of its employees training and development.
The following are the specific objectives of the study:
- To examine if training and development enhances employees’ skill and knowledge
- To examine the effect of employees training and development on employees’ performance and productivity
- To examine adequate training facilities that could help to improve the manpower training and determine.
1.4 Research Questions
- Does training and development enhance employees’ skill and knowledge?
- What effect will training and development have on workers productivity and performance?
- Will adequate training facilities enhance manpower training and development programme.
1.5 Statement of Hypothesis
Hypothesis II
- Ho: Training and development does not improve productivity and performance.
- Hi: Training and development improves productivity and performance.
Hypothesis II
- Ho: Training and development do not improve skills and knowledge of manpower in service organization.
- Hi: Training and development improves skills and knowledge of manpower in service organization.
Hypothesis III
- Ho: Adequate training facilities do not increase training and development
- Hi: Adequate training facilities does not enhance training and development programme.
1.6 Significance of the Study
The research will be beneficial to all service organization especially Rain Oil Company, Delta State and their staff as it emphasized the need and encourage the establishment of policy guidelines on the efficient and effective training and development porgramme.
- It will help managers of various organizations to generate ideas and solution to problems based on the best way to run training in their organization in order to achieve desired goals and objectives.
- It will equally be useful to small scale business, large corporations, and universities, college of education and to the government.
- It will also help researchers to know more about training programme as a tool for improving employees’ performance.
- Finally, it will be of great value to students as a point of reference and will equally form the basis for further research study.
1.7 Scope of the Study
The scope of the study in which the study was carried out comprises of service organization particularly Rain Oil Company, Delta State. For this reason, it was necessary to have a concentrated area of study which was restricted to the evaluation of the effect of manpower training and development in service organization using Rain Oil Company, Delta State as the case study.
Its major limitation was the problem of getting information from the institution under study. As parastatals, there is always the fear of giving out information to the public as such, vital information needed was not readily available.
Time equally would not be left out; getting permition to leave school and the issue of finance cannot be ignored as much was spent in procuring materials. However, with fact and judicial use of the limited resources, reasonable analyses have been carried out in this research work.
1.8 Limitation of the Study
There is no gain saying that there are no limitations in research work generally. Any shortcoming that arises in this study is as a result of factors which are beyond the researcher’s control.
Therefore, it will be of more importance to highlight certain militating factors that tend to narrow or limit my scope of study. This project research would have been easier if not for these limitating factors:
1. Time factor:
Time was not on the researchers to consult various sectors of the economy to review employees or given out questionnaire to various institutions on the effect of government revenue policies.
As we all know, time is never our friend. The time scheduled for the completion of this research thesis was too short. As a result, generating information/data was strenuous as it coincides with final year examination period, which needed attention.
2. Finance:
This is another barrier that limited the researcher’s work.
3. Available resources:
Was unavailable for the research work.
1.9 Definition of Terms
i. Effectiveness:
This is the ability or strength of the employee to bring the result intended to achieve the organizational goals.
ii. Efficiency:
The quality of being capable of utilizing the material recourses to achieve the desired goal.
iii. Employee:
These are workers employed to perform jobs in an organization under an obligation, which they expect income as exchange for effort contribution to the growth of the organization.
iv. Employers:
They are the employer of labour, who might therefore be said the controller of the activities of the establishment.
v. Exploitation:
The process of being able to use a company’s natural resources such as adverts, covering of event, publicity of event for the attainment of profit maximization.
vi. Leadership:
This is the act of influencing an individual or group of activities towards achievement of establishment.
vii. Management:
Is the effectiveness and optimum used of human and material resources to achieve a goal.
viii. Manpower:
This is the power in terms of the workers available to a particular group or required for a particular task.
ix. Responsibility:
Is a person who is reliable and able to carryout various duties imposed on him/her by the establishment.
x. Strength:
These are factors in the environment that place the organization at a advantages over its competitors
xi. Selection:
Is the process of identifying the most suitable applicant and persuades him/her for employment.
xii. Training:
Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one’s capability, capacity, productivity and performance.
xiii. Weakness:
This is the low level of performance in an establishment which hinders its growth.
Chapter Five
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation
5.1 Summary of Findings
In view of the analysis in chapter four of this work, the following findings were arrived at.
- The organization runs a training school within the establishment where priority attention was placed on the technical course because of high technical skill required.
- It was discovered that it is very expensive to embark on training programme especially courses outside the organization. Most of the courses available are technical oriented and management tends to over look administrative courses. Hence, only very small percent are sent on administrative courses.
- It was also discovered by the researcher that Rain Oil Company, Delta State does not only provide training to their employees but it is mandatory that a three month course will be studied by the employee immediately after employment coupled with induction by management in order to enhance their inter – personal acceptance and to improve their performance. However, some employees sent or sponsored by the organization usually do not go back to their work rather they find other fertile areas.
- Finally, the researcher discovered that most of the employees are not worth being trained either due to old age, inability nature of the work or the reluctant on the part of the employee.
5.2 Conclusion
The essence of training and development in service organization cannot be over emphasized. It has been observed that training is very important in every aspect of an organization. It enhances the efficiency of staff, increases output and motivates employees for better performance. It has been discovered that training and human development are not isolated from human resources. Even in the advanced countries and in most computerized organization, training and development cannot be overlooked because; human are the ones to operate this equipment. Because of the fact that ours is a world that is currently undergoing rapid change particularly in the area of skill obsolescence and technological capability, training is not exclusively reserved for newly employed staff but also for the old employees as well. It is therefore important for the purpose of enhancing individual performance.
5.3 Recommendation
The following suggestions are offered which in the opinion of the researcher may go along way in addressing issues relating to human resources training and development programme in service organization.
- The organization should restructure their training by including administrative courses into it so that the high cost of going outside for similar courses will be minimized. There should be free flow of information to enable all the staff aware of the training and development programme available both internally and externally.
- Each section should draw up a roster of training programme for each year so that every staff of the organization would at least be sent on course in a year. This will erode the situation whereby only some chosen few are sent on course.
- Staff qualified for training should be encouraged by providing study leave with pay, and where scholarship is given a proper contract should be undertaken whereby employee would serve for a certain number of years after his/her course. Emphasis should be placed on on – the – job training where employees already in the field impact knowledge on the newly employed staff.
- Finally, periodic seminars and workshop which are not too expensive should be organized for all staff to acquaint them with current changes in management techniques and current development programme.


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