EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND PRODUCTIVITY IN NIGERIA IMPLICATION FOR NATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

Training of workers in any organization is regarded as the engine of employees’ productivity. This is because training helps to improve worker’s skills, knowledge, and abilities. These reasons contributed to why in the past two decades or more, government at various levels in this country, initiated and established different training programmes such as the Nigeria Institutes of Management (NIM), the Centre for Management and Development (CMD) , the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) and a host of others to help in the development and motivation of the workers. In view of this therefore, the paper discusses the types of employees training in Nigeria, the benefit of training, the causes of low productivity ,the benefits of high productivity and proffers recommendations that can foster national transformation viz, national consciousness should be of utmost concern by workers and employers in this country for improvement in employees productivity, workers and employers should work as partners in progress, amongst others, as a way of nurturing management function that leads to national transformation in the country.

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