The Role of Industrial Training on Manpower Development in Enugu State

The Role of Industrial Training on Manpower Development in Enugu State.

ABSTRACT  

The topic of this research is the Role of Industrial Training on Manpower Development. At the time of writing this project, two companies Emenite Limited and Anammco Limited and Some top executives of ITF were sampled for the survey. In collecting the data for this research, the instrument used were the questionnaire and oral interviews.

In chapter one, the topic and its need is introduced. Some hypothesis was formulated to guide in the research work. In chapter two, literature review was carried out to get necessary information from existing materials that talked about the role of industrial training on manpower development. Some of the materials is gotten from libraries, archives, journals, textbooks etc.

In chapter three, the design of the research and the methods were narrated, questionnaires were designed and distributed to respondents and collected back for analysis coupled with oral interviews. In chapter four, the returned questionnaire was analyzed, scores of the respondents were tallied, built into frequency tables and percentages scored.

Hypothesis formulated were however tested and conclusion draw. Chapter five, from the analysis of the data collected, the researcher found out that, ITF, is doing a good job though it has some problems hindering it=s progress. The research ended up in concluding, summarizing and putting up a number of recommendations for further studies. 

INTRODUCTION 

Some years back, the concepts of training and development of employees were vaguely understood in most of our developing countries. This was supported by Dr. Akinku in his book ANigeria Today@ when he said, Awe are yet to find out what it is, are the 4ms absent in our mist? All efforts to improve on our productively yield no result@. Referring to his 4m=s he meant, man, materials, machine and money.

With the turn of events, and increased awareness both the developed and developing countries have come to appreciate the problem of employee development and training in many organizations. In his inaugural lecture on supervisor management training course, Layemo said that the basic problem of developing countries is not lack of natural resources but the underdevelopment of their human resources@.

In a similar perspective, Eze in his book ASources of Management Motivation@ showed that manpower in the third world countries are undeveloped. In support of this, a report by Ashby of (1959:58) showed that manpower resources in the third world countries, were still developing. Following Ashby=s recommendation the National manpower Board was established in 1962.

As a follow up, the manpower board in 1963 undertook a comprehensive manpower survey which brought to governments notice the following:

a) The quality of management in all levels of one of the major problems of economic development.

b) The need for effective co-ordination to avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts in manpower training.

In 1969, the International Labour Organization (ILO) emphasized the inadequacy of manpower development programmes in Nigeria which was necessary for her to carry out her economic development plan occasioned by the civil 3 war, hence the need for rehabilitations, required to develop technical and progression manpower training. 

REFERENCES

Akinku, A. Nigeria Today, Jos, Salama Press Limited 1978, p.7.

Layemo, B. The Origin of ITF, Enugu, Mimeograph, May 1995, p.2.

Eze, P.A. Sources of Management Motivation. Ibadan, Oxford University Press 1993 pp. 20 -25.

Yesufu, J.M. Manpower Problems and Economic Development in Nigeria Ibadan Oxford University Press 1969
p.37.

Monetary and Banking Systems in Nigeria Zaria, Ad: Publishers 1985 p.27.

Mohammed Dikko Training Needs in Industrialized Society Kano Sadura Press Limited 1978 p.1.

Layemo, B. Supervisory Management Training Course Enugu Monograph May 1995 p.8

Idris Mohammed Instructional Skills Development Course Enugu Monograph February 1997, p.6.

Ashby, Manpower Planning in Industrialized Society, Ibadan Oxford University Press, 1959, p.68.

StudentsandScholarship Team.