CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Word wide, manufacturing industries have grown tremendously in the last decade. Some of the industries are predominantly in the small scale sector employing mostly unskilled and untrained manpower. Besides, the increased consumption of various goods manufactured, the use of these goods for other purposes is increasing rapidly due to globalization and joint ventures with leading industries from the developed countries. There is the growing demand for improving the quality of products on par with the international standard. The demand for quality improvement and economic production can be met through development and induction of trained manpower. However, the development and training of this manpower is without no problem.
Manpower has been defined or referred to as people, humanity or society with all the needs, inspirations and capacities as an economic resource, also as the number of people available for work. The term can however be brought to common standard as the aggregate skills, attitudes emanating and consequent upon the quality and extent of education and training, providing a labor force with desired planning and organizing ability.
Manpower has to be planed by ensuring that an organization has the right number of people who posses the proper skills at the right time performing jobs that are useful to the organization. This can be done by auditing of present labor force in terms of skill mix, experience and location creating a viable method for forecasting manpower needs present volume of production, anticipating expansion changing technology etc, deciding critically skills and establishing plans for their allocation, analysis of the labor market and trends in demands and supply relationship and developing plans for meeting manpower strategies.
Development is synonymous with social mobilization. It is the process of moving people from a situation and propelling them through a system of planned indoctrination toward the ought situation and administration of things where certain aspects of the old yield to the new calculated to reinforce those values considered a sin qua non for accomplishing national development goals.
Training on the other people learn organized procedure by which people learn or acquire knowledge and or skill for a define purpose.
The dynamic nature, that is the change directed character of development was recognized when certain write ups pointed out that the concept has more values and adoption of new ones.
HISTORY OF ANAMMCO
Mercedes Benz ANAMMCO limited was incorporated on January 19, 1977 and the plant was commissioned on July 8, 1980 by the first executive president of Nigeria, Alhaji Shehu Shagari. It started official production in January 1981, and has to date made an enviable mark on the nation’s industrial growth, adding over 25,000 vehicles to the nation’s transport sector, backed up effectively with a network of over 36 after-sales service points and spare parts supply depots. The company’s central spare parts depot stocks over 35,000 line items.
Mercedes benz ANAMMCO is a joint venture between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Dambler Chrysle AG. Mercedes Benz ANAMMCO manufactures of commercial vehicles take the lead in the commercial vehicles market from five towns par load and above in Nigeria. The plant, which occupies a sprawling 300,000 square meter size in Emene, near Enugu is a shining example of a profitable and viable economic and technological corporation between the government and people of Nigeria and Doumbler Chrysler AG and so there exist a combination of white/black system of administration.