RELEVANCE OF MANPOWER TRAINING, DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES IN ORGANIZATIONS

¹Alimi Baba Gana; ² Bukar Jamri and ³Ahmadu Ibrahim

¹Department of Agricultural Technology

Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, Borno State

^2&3Department of Sociology, Yobe State, University, Damaturu

e-mail: bgalimi@yahoo.com, bukarjamri@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the longest time general impression in the minds of organizational experts, managers, subordinates and other professional on the challenges of organizational productivity and staff performance as well as relevance of Manpower training and development in our modern day organizations. This paper also identifies and discusses the problems that hinder management successes. Employee performances and employee needs variables, training programmes, sources of assessing training needs, training methods, and their importance, benefits of manpower training programme, evaluation of training program and implementation of training programme, in line with empirical literatures on the subject, are also highlighted and extensively discussed. A descriptive survey and purposive oral discussions and technical interactions methods are used to make the work comprehensive. Several organization, ministry and departments were selected with sample of fifty (50) for the whole study and suggestions are made to overcome the situations for future purposes.

Keywords: Relevance, manpower, training, development, challenges, organization.