Abstract
This Study examines the effects of Training of Academic Staff on employees’ Performance in the Federal Polytechnics in Nigeria. The main objective is to examine the effects of Training of Academic Staff on: employees’ Productivity, Timeliness and Work quality respectively. It is equally hypothesized that there’s no significant effect of Training of Academic Staff on employees’ Productivity, Timeliness and Work quality respectively. A structured, close-ended questionnaire with a 5-point Likert scale was adopted to get data from the respondents. A total of 220 copies of the questionnaire were randomly administered using a stratified random sampling technique across the 7 schools as well as the library unit of the Polytechnic. Ordinary Least Square (O.L.S) method of regression and ANOVA methods of analysis were employed in analyzing the results with the aid of SPSS computer package. Findings revealed that the Training of Academic Staff has a significant effect on employees’ productivity, enhanced timeliness in service delivery and work quality. The study recommends among other issues for the periodic re-training of staff bearing in mind the dynamics of human activities.
Highlights
Organizations are encountering increased competition owing to globalization, transformations in technology, political and economic environments (Evans, Pucik & Barsoux, 2002 cited in Tukunimulongo, 2016) and prompting these organizations to train their employees as one of the ways to prepare them to adjust to the dynamics of time to enhance their performance becomes imperative (Tukunimulongo, 2016)
This study looks at the effects of Training of Academic staff on employees’ Performance in Federal Polytechnics in Nigeria
The study aligns with the theory of reinforcement that believed that training is a strategic tool to make job interesting to the workers and as the avenue for the employees to improve themselves for optimal performance, which can culminate to promoting employees for outstanding performance, innovation, and creativity as a result of the training attended
Summary
Organizations are encountering increased competition owing to globalization, transformations in technology, political and economic environments (Evans, Pucik & Barsoux, 2002 cited in Tukunimulongo, 2016) and prompting these organizations to train their employees as one of the ways to prepare them to adjust to the dynamics of time to enhance their performance becomes imperative (Tukunimulongo, 2016). It is important not to disregard the prevailing evidence on the development of knowledge in the business corporate world in the final ten This maturation has not merely been conveyed about by improvements in technology nor a combination of factors of production but increased efforts towards growth of organizational human resources. It is, the duty of every organization to raise the business performance of the employees and certainly the implementation of training and growth is one of the major steps that. This demand for managers to confirm an acceptable provision of staff that is socially and technically capable and talented career development into high-quality departments or management positions (Sultana, Irum, Ahmed &Mehmood, 2012)
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