Training's Impact on Employee Performance
Training's Impact on Employee Performance
BY
ODLND23PAD0080
MAY, 2025
CERTIFICATION
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This Research Work has been read and Approved as Meeting the
Requirement for the Award of National Diploma (ND) in Public Administration,
Institute of Finance and Management Studies Kwara State Polytechnic Ilorin.
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MR. OLOWOOKERE K.O DATE
(PROJECT SUPERVISOR)
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MR. SERIKI I.A DATE
(HEAD OF DEPARTMENT)
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DEDICATION
This project is dedication to Almighty Allah, for his protecting and loving
kindness for the successfully of my National Diploma Programme
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First and foremost, I give thanks to God Allah for his infinity mercy over
my life and for giving me the power, wisdom and understanding to complete this
research study.
I hereby express my immeasurable gratitude to my supervisor Mr.
OLOWOOKERE for guiding and supporting me for making this research work a
reality.
My appreciation also goes to my beloved parent in person of Mr. and Mrs.
IDRIS for their physical, financial and moral support towards the complexion of
my program, may God bless them all (Amen).
My profound gratitude also goes to my siblings and friends may Almighty
God continue to bless you. Thank you so much.
Finally, and above all, I give glory and adoration to the king of host for
making this program a successful one.
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TABLE OF CONTENT
Title Page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgment iv
Table of Content vi
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction
CHAPTER TWO
Literature Review
2.1 Introduction 7
References 11
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CHAPTER THREE
Research Methodology
3.1 Introduction 12
References 16
CHAPTER FOUR
4.1 Introduction 17
References 22
CHAPTER FIVE
Summary, Conclusion and Recommendations
5.1 Summary of Findings 23
5.2 Conclusion 23
5.3 Recommendations 24
Bibliography 26
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Training for proper job performance and include all employees from the least worker to
the executives for every successful organization, there is well trained and experienced
workers to perform the activities. Even experienced workers need to learn more about
their job, organization, procedures to make them more competent and productive.
Training gives birth to knowledge and it’s been a very useful instrument in
specifically designed for people to learn and have knowledge, skill, Technical aptitude
which geared him or her towards the attainment of a specific purpose. It can also be a
process of updating old skills and developing new ones. In the course of Training,
workers are exposed to new method and techniques of doing thing and aim at effecting a
change in the behaviour of those trained employee in an organization to make their work
easier and more focused. An ever rapidly changing business environment therefore
change from time to time which all for continuous upgrading of employee skills and
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capabilities to improve on their job performance, growth and the ability to adopt to the
Employee engagement is another aspect more or less training and may be seen as
employee willingness and ability to help their company succeed largely by providing
discretionary effort on a sustainable basis and may be affected by many factors which
involve both emotional and rational factors relating to work and the overall work
experience (Markos & Srider, 2010). They posit that engaged employee work harder, are
more likely to go above the requirements and expectations of their work and also tend to
feel that their work actually positively affects their physical and psychological well-
being. On the other hand job satisfaction is viewed as the extent to which people like or
dislike their jobs (Adesola, Oyeniyi & Adeyemi, 2013). There is different aspect of job
satisfaction e.g. satisfaction with achievement, pay, job security or work itself. They
continue that the factors bring positive feelings about the job ensuring from assessment
of its uniqueness and also an employee among a high job satisfaction holds encouraging
of most organization within the country to exert more effort and the production process,
thus, by increasing their productivity through the capture of the training of employees
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i. The problem of training not supporting the organization objectives
ii. The problem of emphasis on training programme instead of its desired impact
on employees
iii. Will the employee send on training meet the requirement of the organization?
performance.
organizational productivity
(3) To ascertain the extent to which selection procedure of employee for training
organizational productivity.
(3) To what extent does selection procedure of employee for training affect
organizational productivity.
productivity is significant?
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2. H0= 2: There is no substantial relationship between employee perception of
3. H0= 3: Selection procedure of employee for training does not have a high effect
on organizational productivity.
This project will be relevant to the organization and other business concern. Thus, the
significance of the study cannot over emphasize and can be viewed from the following
perspectives.
1. The study will help the top management in taking strategic decision that affect
2. The study will help the human resources department in proper planning and
3. Future researchers will also find this work very useful as reference materials for
further studies.
4. The study shows the importance of training and why it’s necessary that they are
5. The study shows how training will enable the organization to get a maximum
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The study focused on training perspective, efficiency, the cadre of staff being
trained and on what basis are they trained. However the study is limited to lack of
study. Most of the data method for the research work was not made available and
result, the finding of this research was limited to only the data made available to the
researcher.
1. Training: - Are programs that provide workers with information, new skills or
related to state of mind that leads employee to actively express and invest
3. Job Satisfaction: -It can be defined as the extent to which people like or dislike
their jobs.
4. Motivation: - They are those psychological process that cause the arousal,
direction persistence
and may depend upon many factors like performance appraisals, employee
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6. Development: - It is the process which individual level increase skill
7. Efficiency: - It means the relationship between the achieved objectives and the
9. Training Design: - This is the process of creating a blue print for the
10. Delivery Style: This is a set of a systematic process designed to meet learning
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CHAPTER TWO
It is one thing to recruit, select and place employees on jobs; it is another thing for
them to carry out their responsibilities effectively. This chapter aims at analyzing the
until recently because of the presumption that employee hired underemployment system
are qualified and trained for their jobs (Okotow and Efero, 2005). It was further assumed
that if that was not the case then it means that initial selection of personnel was facility.
Training has become the Holy Grail to some organizations, an evidence of how
management truly cares about its workforce (Hamid, 2011). He went further to say that
the effectiveness with which organizations manage, develop, and motivate, of how well
these organizations perform. The importance of training as become more obvious giving
the growing complexity of the work environment, the rapid changes in an organizations
and technological advancement which further necessitates the need for training and
an employee to obtain a full value of knowledge and some basic requirements must be
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iii. Training programme must be used by updating old skills and developing new
ones.
v. Training progarmme must be tailed to the specific office in which they are to
be used.
Training has been defined different by different authors. It’s the process of
transmitting and receiving information related to problem solving (Jack Halloran, 2012).
It can also be defined as a learning process whereby people learn skills, concepts, attitude
and knowledge to aid in the achievement of goals (Mathis and Jackson, 2009). Gary
Dessler, (2011) also defined it as the process of teaching new employees the basic skills
they need to perform in their jobs. Training programs that are more present day oriented,
focuses on individual current jobs, enhancing specific skills and abilities to immediately
perform their job (Decenzo & Robbins, 2012). These divergent views not standing all the
scholars seem to point to one fact that training aims at improving organizational
performance.
and lake, 2008). The quality of employee and their development trough training and
its employees and to employee training need (Noe, 2008). Smith (2010) opines that
training motivate employee and make them more productive and innovative. The need
order to avoid wastage and equally to derive maximum benefits, for instance it pay is
plant, so that amount an organization cannot to training may have little or no effect since
A haphazard approach must be avoided because it will not result in bridging the
gap between where the employee is now but should be in terms of skill, knowledge and
STEP ONE
Organization Analysis: Here, the objectives, resources and other attributes of the
company are examined to reflect in the training programme for their worker.
STEP TWO
terms of the description and specification of the job. This is aimed at ensuring that the
individual performing the job meet up with the specifications for that job.
STEP THREE
Man Analysis: It involves determining existing skill of the employee in order to design
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2.2.2 TYPES OF TRAINING
depends on a number of considerations. Basically there are many types of training which
are as follows:
THEORECTICAL FRAMEWORK
There are two main theoretical approaches towards employee training namely; the
human capital approach regards training as investment in human capital where the benefit
from productivity gains is greasier than the cost of training while the technology based
approach regards training as a skill formation process. Here, the expanded training in the
recongnization. A conclusion was reached that there approach however; to a large extent
overlooked the content of employee train could be a result of training delivery style.
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CHAPTER THREE
3.1 INTRODUCTION
logically adapting steps (Scridhar, 2008). Machines (2012) noted that a method of study
would enable interchange of ideas and information, formulate accepted techniques and
rules. In order to facilitate this research study, we have approached method of study
under the following headings. Research design, the population of study sample size and
sampling techniques, instrument of data collection, method of data analysis and historical
background of study.
The research design compasses of the method for the collectionmeasurement and
analysis of data related to the research objective. The research design chosen for this
study is survey method because the researcher has no control of the variable as well as
the outcome.
and it comprises of the executive chairman, supervisors and other staffs of the company.
A sample size of 380 respondents was drawn from the populations using a systematic
The categorization of the population as senior and Junior is based on the fact that
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3.4 SAMPLE SIZE AND SAMPLING TECHNIQUES
Sampling design consists of all aspects of sampling in the study and what it
entails.
A stratified random sampling was used to obtain in the sample size. The
population was categorized into the management positions. Auka et al., (2013) post that
stratified random sampling ensures that all the groups or categories are adequately
It’s a high degree of accuracy and adequacy in presentation of the sample so the
sampling method (proportional allocation) was adopted. The sample size representing the
number of staff who received questionnaires was divided into stratum. This is shown
( n ) (N )
nx=
P
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CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 INTRODUCTION
This chapter of the research work is concerned with extracting the meaning of the data
collected; the task here depends on some of the choices made during the research method
and design phrase. The study sought to finds out the efforts of training on employee’s
total of two hundred (200) copies of questionnaire were distributed, out of which (194)
were fully completed and returned while six (6) copies were not returned the chapter also
focuses on the data presentation, data analysis and interpretation and discussion of
findings.
Valid male
Female 150 77.3 77.3 77.3
44 22.7 22.7 100.0
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INTERPRETATION
The sex distributor of respondent in the table 1 above shows that 127 respondents
representing 70.5% male while 53 representing 29.4% are females. This implies that the
manufacturing company employs more males than females. This under stable because it
is a manufacturing outfit and males are more disposed to working in factories. This could
have an adverse effect on the organization’s objectives of employee training because men
are primarily responsible for the welfare of the family and they could lobby more to go
Valid
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INTERPRETATION
The age distribution of respondent as presented above shows that 28 out of 194
respondent are the age bracket 18-25 representing 14.4%, 105 representing 54.1% are in
the age of 26-35, while 51-representing 26.39% are in the age range of 36-45 and 10
respondent only 5.2% of the respondent aged between above 45. This implies that 85% of
Valid
INTERPRETATION
The Table above shows that act of 194 respondents, (17.7%) have WASSCE
GCE, 60 (31.0%) have ordinary National Diploma, 99 (51.0%) are graduates and 20
(10.36) have master’s degree. This shows that 119 (61.3%) of the total respondents
graduated from University or Polytechnic. This that more than half of the employee will
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not pay serious attention when sent on training since they have acquired basic education
Valid Junior
INTERPRETATION
The table above shows that out of 194 respondents, 130 (67%) are junior staff, while 64
(33.0%) are senior Staff. This shows that more of the manufacturing organization
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Table 5: Residence of respondents
100.0
10 5.1 5.1
INTERPRETATION
The table above show that out of 194 respondents, 20 (10.3%) own their personal
appointment, 124 (64.0%) rented an apartment by the company while 10 (5.1%) are
parental guardian accommodation. This implies that 164 (84.5%) of the respondents have
a good standard of living and as well provide an accumulation for themselves while on
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RESEARCH QUESTION: why do you go for Training?
To Improve my financial
wellbeing 49 25.3 25.3 61.4
To me enable me secure
employment elsewhere 7 3.6 3.6 65.0
Result of my loyalty to
immediate boss 3 1.5 1.5 66.5
INTERPRETATION
The table above shows that 70 (36.1%) of the respondent said that the reason for
going training is to acquire more skills and improve employee performance, 49, (25.36)
employment elsewhere, 3 (1.5%) said it’s result of being loyal to their boss, 65 (33.5%)
said to prepare for promotion within the organization. This implies that the major reasons
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for going on training are to ensure more skills improve performance. Nevertheless, there
could be other reasons for going on training such as financial gain preferential treatments
etc.
Valid
Others 0 0 0 100.0
INTERPRETATION
The table above show that 120 (61.9%) of the respondent want from the job
training, 54 (27.8%) of the respondents want for off the job Training, 20 (10.3%) of the
respondent went for both while other types of training are not really necessary in
manufacturing organization. This implies that the both training works towards achieving
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RESEARCH QUESTION 3: Do you agree there is an effect of dissemination in
The Table show that 85 (43.8%) of the respondent strongly agreed that
dissemination in identify and selecting employees for training has a negative effect on
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RESEARCH QUESTION 4: please rate the importance of Training Design on
Employee.
INTERPRETATION
The above table shows that training design is important as claimed by 110
(56.7%) of the total respondents, 50 (25.8%) said it’s very important to organizational
performance. Only 22 (11.3%) thinks it’s necessary and 12 (6.2%) are undecided.
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RESEARCH QUESTION 5: Do you agree that employee’s poor performance can
be as a result for Training.
Frequency Percent Valid percent Cumulative
percent
INTERPRETATION
The above Table shows that 132 (68.0%) of the respondents agree that
disagree and 20 (10.3%) are yet to decide because they are not sure what to say.
The discussion of findings received around the set objectives. The findings in this
study were compared to empirical findings made in other related studies, where effort
was made to reconcile them. The objectives are presented again below:
organization
employee wishes.
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3. To find out conclusion on how to achieve efficiency in the organization.
From the analysis of data collected from the respondents, it was observed that
majority agreed on the opinion that training has a good effect on employee
performance, add more to their knowledge and motivate them to perform better.
The respondents believed that in most cases, it’s not always the employee’s wish
to go on training but it’s most appropriate that the employee meets the company standard
and would be able to represent the company elsewhere. It also implies that each
employee would be able to identify themselves and know their weak areas.
The respondents also agree that with training, it is what goes into making the
change and that people learn if they accept the need for training and commit to it. If their
motivation is weak, no matter how well their training is designed and implemented, its
productive.
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CHAPTER FIVE
performance.
when other variables like training design delivery style, its effect becomes
significant.
5.2 CONCLUSION
The study concludes that if the right employee is sent on training through the
systematic Training procedure of identifying and selecting employee for Training, there
organizations to become more productive and remain in business, especially in this area
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should have a mechanism for evaluating employee post training performance. Emphasis
should be on still gap and not on sentiment when selecting employee for training.
5.3 RECOMMENDATIONS
In the light of the findings and conclusion of the study, the following
recommendation are made which if adopted would be training be training function of the
human resources department of Dangote Flour Mill make the company more productive
and efficient.
(a) Seminar and workshop should be organized for the human resource department
(b) Head of department should be sanitized on the importance of sending the right
employee on Training. They should not see training opportunities as pay back
indicators
(e) The human resources department should ensure that adequate training design
should be adopted for employee training. The content should be able to include
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the identified skill gaps while making sure that a trainer who is knowledgeable
performance.
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