CHAPTER ONE
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The attainment of organizational goals depend largely on the effort of its’ human resources. No organization survive without the effort of manpower, that why management of any organization must recognize human element as the most vital ingredient that sustain the growth and long survival of the organization. For a sustainable development and continuous increase in productivity, the management must actively be up and doing in manpower training and development programme because training bridge the gap between the actual performance and expected performance.
Training is the planned and conscious effort towards improving skill and attitude to increase organizational productivity. Apart from increasing productivity, it prepares employee for higher position and when faced with complex task, it keep employees at rest. As organization expand so the management become complex which call for the need for manpower training for effective and efficient running of the organization. Employee needs a constant training to withstand technological changes. Training deals with factual and relatively favour or structured learning material having immediate job reference to programme for fewer ranking employee while development is strictly meant for manager.
Management development therefore implies, attempt to improve managerial performance effectiveness through impacting knowledge for the purpose of organizational performance. Some managers are develop organization wide to identify managerial potentials or superior candidate with the view of widen the breath of experience (knowledge and attitude). Some are develop to enable them ripe for promotion and withstand complex task. Manpower training and development as a policy in an organization involved given the required training and impacting the needed knowledge to improve the employee performance which is gear towards increasing productivity. Other objective of training programme is avoidance of personnel obsolesce, a constant damage in highly competitive and changing business environment above all, training and development is the life wire of any organization that wishers to grow because no one knows except is been taught so for that organization must embrace training.