CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Management is a unique element that is applicable to any establishment or organization, management has been differently defined by many people. Some look at it as a man made term or a group of people that control the affairs of an establishment.
Management is also referred to as a process demanding the productivity of specific function, here being seen as a profession. However, management is also a process that involves planning, organizing, coordinating, motivating and controlling resources before the stated objective can be admired. For management to achieve its objectives resources must be available, these resources may be material, human and financial and they all to be organized, coordinated and controlled in order to achieved the stated objectives.
According to British Institute of Management, Management can also be seen as the process of getting things done through other people or subordinate.
    A management must have task to be achieved and he cannot achieve things without the assistance of the subordinates, the subordinate will perform the job. Good management looks to the future and prepares it hence, one important way is to develop and train
manager so that they can be able to cope with new demands problems and challenges.
Indeed, organization has the responsibility to provide training and development opportunity for the employees so that they can reach their full potentials, training is concerned with present development and with the future.
However, during the 1905s, firm became aware that management needs special knowledge and skill that can be taught. This motion was conclude surely arrived at when it is discovered that today business organization has certain characteristics is complexity, this has been in the form of broad production line, based on challenging technology, serving international market characterized by many firms.
1.1    STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
    Many companies are today being faced by declining productivity, the reasons may be due to low morale, unconductive environment, poor 1ary package need to be abreast to time to ensures that they are it tuned to ways of handling equipments that can enhance productivity. These must be done in the face of declining economy and company scarce resource & For an organization to achieve its objectives effectively, such organization must introduce or have a kind of training and development for the employees to enhance better productivity.
1.2     OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The major aim and objective of the study is to examine the effective of management development program on employment productivity in an organization.
This study aim at looking into the following
1. To examine whether management development program eventually increase workers productivity.
2. To discuss the need for management development in the Nigeria industries.
3. To know how management development increase the organization present and future capacity.
4. To proffers suggestion towards solving these problems.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Management and employees development program are those organization sponsored programme aimed at education supervisory and employees above the immediate technical requirement of their jobs.
This research work will be useful to the management, employees and organization at large. This study would help management to look for the types of the development system appropriate for their employees. More over, the study will assist organization to achieve their aims and objectives.
1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
The case study of this project would be and the scope is to critically analyze the effect of management development programmes on employees productivity in an organization with reference to the case study. This study will cover some typical problem of management development programme in the Nigeria firms, the time allocated for the research work is very limited and unfavorable.
Moreover, the tools needed for the secondary data like the journal, textbooks and some from chapter four of the management (C.M.D) are difficult to get or some by.