Monday 15 January 2018

TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT AS A TOOL FOR ENHANCING MANPOWER PRODUCTIVITY IN UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA,

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1   Background of the Study
It is very paramount to know and understand that the key to success of any organization is human resource (Labour), which comprises of skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled Labour.

Human resources otherwise known as employees are the most useful resource in any organization and should be well managed by employers because without them machinery and equipment can never function. So how they are handled affects the long term plan of the organization, which is result oriented.

The study is particularly, is aimed at knowing how management can help staff to help themselves with diversification going on all around training and development will nevertheless increased productivity in terms of increased skills knowledge out look performance and also minimize and eradicate redundancy lay off and procrastination.

Organization should view employees as assets, so therefore they should invest and pay attention to the employees in an organization.

1.2                           Statement of the Problem
Every organization is faced with one problem or the other in training and developing its staff. When an employee is not trained in the job his performance will not contribute positively to the organization productivity but if trained the employee will contribute positively to the organizations productivity. Also, after training an employee for some months or weeks and the employee is notable to perform to a certain standard, there will be a fall short in the organization productivity. The following are some of the problem.
a.   How can people be motivated?
b.  How can training need be distinguished for an organizational need that can be satisfied in some other ways?
c.   What are the relative utilities of various training method and devices?
d.  How it can be determined? To what extent has the objectives of the training programme been achieved. 
1.3                           Objectives of the Study
The need for training and development of employees can never be over emphasized, essence of training and development is to upgrade all categories of staff.
With this knowledge any growing organization will demand to train and develop its employees through educational programmes to stand the test of time. Most especially in the field of information technology where there is direct need for all employees to be acquainted with this study, was undertaken with the following objectives. 
1.          To examine the need for training and development in banking industries
2.          To identify the nature of training and development in the organization.
3.          To identify problem of training and its nature in UBA.
4.          To check whether the organization (UBA) is motivating its staff after training and development.
5.          To identify the means of evaluating the effectiveness of the training programmes and to give useful recommendations and solution to the problems in UBA.

1.4      Statement of Hypothesis
The researcher intent to state the hypothesis as follows:
Ho:   Effective training and development of employees does not         enhances manpower productivity in UBA.
H1:   Effective training and development of employees enhances         manpower productivity in UBA.

1.5      Significance of the Study
The prevailing situation of organization is the growing concern for efficiency and productivity of their employees. It hope that this study will provide information on the remote and immediate causes of inefficiency and low productivity in an organization.

The information will serve as a guide to the organizations to know their strengths and weaknesses in order to improve for the better. The study will also help to treat and prove some of the existing theories of training and development as they apply to organizations existence.

It is hoped that the findings of this study will contribute to existing knowledge and information in the areas of research.

It is also expected that findings and recommendations will guide the organizations, which has a direct contact with the employees to enter meaningful dialogue or how to improve efficiency and productivity, there by discovering area important for training.

The study will be useful to the employees who always complain that organizations (UBA) does not have adequate training and development programmes.

Finally, it may be useful to student who may wish to write or make some research on similar topic and using this as point of reference and to direct them towards their profession.
 
1.6      Scope of the Study
The study intents to view, how United Bank Plc Kaduna uses training and development in motivating their employees. Each of the areas to be covered by this study  therefore has direct or indirect bearing on the subject matter. To further facilitates this research the areas to be covered are narrowed down under the following headings:
1.  Effective training and development programmes
2.  Objective of the training and development policy
3.  The advantage of training and development to the organization under review
4.  Training, development and productivity force of the organization problem encountered in the training and development process.

1.7      Limitation of the Study
In the course of this study, a number of problems and constrain were encountered and these includes
i.            Time
ii.          Finance
iii.        Convenience
iv.         Co-operation
-          Time despite these short coming the researcher was able to gather enough materials necessary for the successful accomplishment of the research
-          Finance much money was spent in purchasing statement, material and but transport to the bank and wastage of money to pen and book.
-          Convenience the task of combining academic work in the school with project work was tedious and required the use of intelligence and initiative as well as creativity.
-          Co-operation in the process of sourcing for a relevant materials in meeting the people in the bank and other people in other to gather information, is too hard because information are hard to access.

Despite these short coming the researcher was able to gather enough materials necessary for the successful accomplishment of the research.

1.8   Historical Background of Case Study
The United Bank for Africa {UBA} is the product of merger of Nigeria’s third {3rd} and fifth {5th} largest banks, namely the old UBA and erstwhile standard Trust bank plc{STB} respectively ,and a subsequent combination of erstwhile continental Trust Bank limited{CTB}. The union emerged as the first successful corporate combination in the history of Nigerian banking.

The history dates back to the founding of UBA in 1961, and the erstwhile STB and CTB both in 1990. Although today’s UBA emerged at a time of industry consolidation induced by regulation, the consolidated UBA was born out of a desire to lead the domestic sector to a new area of Global relevance by championing the creation of the Nigerian consumer  finance market, leading a private public sector partnership, and supporting the acceleration of the Nigerian’s economic development, and growing the institution from, banking to a one-step of financial services institution, spreading its foot prints across Africa to earn the reputation as the face of banking in the continent.
Furthermore, the consolidated UBA is the largest financial service institution in West Africa with a balance sheet size in excess of one Trillion Naira {under USD 8b} and more than six million {6m} customer’s accounts, operating out of the two most vibrant economies in the sub-region- Nigeria and Ghana, It has over six hundred and thirty {630} retail distribution centers across Nigeria, its main operational base and 8 branches in Ghana. Outside Africa, it also has presence in New York and Cayman Island.

1.9      DEFINITION OF MAJOR TERMS
There are some major terms used in this project work the meaning of which would enable one to understand all that is described in the project.
These terms include:
Training:        Training is the deliberate effort by an organization to change the work related behaviour and attitude of employee. This training aims at providing new knowledge advancing skill and changing the attitude of workers.
Development: development is programmes designed to assist employees/managers in preparing themselves for future responsibilities of a difference nature, or a higher degree of proficiency in their present job.
Motivation:      motivation standard definition calls a motive “strong and persistent internal stimulus around which behaviour is organized, motivation factors that stimulate human behaviour to a desired level.
Instinct:          Instinct are natural selection in which those particular physical and behavour characteristic of a species that are adoptive to the environment and enable it to survives are transmitted genetically to  individual member of the species.
Learning:        learning is a relatively permanent change in behaviour that result from reinforced practice or experience. This it is the process by which employees acquire behavour pattern both desirable and indesirable.
Management: management is a process whereby a suitable environment is created efforts to be organized to accomplish desired goals. Thus management can also be process of getting things done through people, a manager is a person who makes it possible for his subordinate to produces.
Organization:                       Organization is a coordinated social unit composed of two or more people that function to achieve a common goals.
Consumer behaviour: Consumer behaviour can be defined as how consumers allocates search resources that is there to various goods and service keeping at a glance.
Stimulus:        Stimulus can be defined as an event that causes certain behaviour responses