EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE TRAINING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF CEMENT INDUSTRY IN NIGERIA

The perception of employees on training has a greater impact on the success of any organization. If the employees are satisfied with the training policies of the organization, this will have a positive impact on the organization’s productivity. The study examines the effect of employee training on organizational performance: a study of cement industry in Nigeria. The survey research method was used adopted for this study. The population consists of 694 staff of both junior and senior of Dangote Cement Factory, Gboko, Benue State and BUA Cement Factory, Obu, Kogi State. A sample of 254 was extracted from the population using Yaro Yamani’s Statistical Formula and the two hypotheses formulated were tested using One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test (Zc). The findings from the hypotheses showed the unsystematic approach of employee training has a high effect on organizational productivity and the effect of employee training alone on organizational performance is low. The study concludes that if the right employees are sent on training through the systematic training procedure of identifying and selecting employees for training, there would be a significant improvement on the organizational performance. From the findings, recommendations were draw that seminars and workshops should be organized for the Human Resource department on the importance of systematic approach of training and proper procedure to follow in identifying skill gaps in the various departments and that adequate training design, rich in content is used for employee training.