STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF MANPOWER IN AN ORGANIZATION FOR EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE [A CASE STUDY OF POWER HOLDING COMPANY OF NIGERIA, OWERRI HEADQUARTERS]

ABSTRACT


The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of training and development of manpower in an organization for efficient performance with special reference to (P.H.C.N) Power Holding Company of Nigeria Zonal Headquarter Owerri. In contemporary time, the practice of training employees has become a popular phenomenon in the entire personnel policy of many organizations. The programme involves sending employees for training in order to increase their ability and knowledge. Consequently, from the employer’s point of view, it is anticipated that a good training and development programme will induced the employees into working hard and also improve their general attitude towards the progress of the organization.
To carry out this study, both primary and secondary data were made use of. Also questionnaire, sample survey was used and oral interview were conducted on some staff. Tables, simple percentages and bar charts were the tools used to analyze the data collected while chi-square was used to test the research hypothesis, several findings were made and based on these findings, and some recommendations were given.
Finally, for a successful research work to be carried out this study was divided into five chapters and each was exhaustively addressed.


CHAPTER 1


CHAPTER ONE
1.0     INTRODUCTION
1.1     BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The importance of human resources in an organization depends more on those resources, for attainments of its objective. However, these objectives cannot be achieved unless the organization is made up of employees who have skill, knowledge and abilities to work. Employees may have these qualities but skill find it very difficult to cope with their jobs to some factors such as organizational changes and so on.
Therefore, the management of organizations involves training and development of manpower, as one of it’s various activities. When workers are employed, they are just left to stay and work until they are due for retirement but are being trained and developed in order to increase their abilities, skills and knowledge.
Experiences have shown that many employees have failed in their organizations, because the provision of training as an indispensable part of management function was not rendered to them. Employees are not just trained for their own benefits only, the organization stand to gain a lot from them.
The training and development of manpower programme is a very important activity every management cannot afford to miss, because it is not every thing that can be learned in a working situation. In fact, for attainment of organizational goals, training and development programmes should be organized. A substantial amount of money is needed for such programme, but it is regarded as money will invested because of its benefits among which are:
1.              It helps to lower cost waste
2.              It helps to maintain equipment
3.              It helps to increase employees obsolescence
4.              It helps to improve the quality of output
5.              It helps to prevent low turnover and absenteeism.
6.              It helps to reduce the number of cost of accident
In deed, it is not enough to stress for effective and efficient service delivery at power holding company of Nigeria with effective training and development activities. These are the reasons, why the researcher is out, in this study to learn from the above mentioned organization. They should answer on behalf of other organization.