Impact Of Staff Training And Development On Work Attitudes In Imo State Public Service; A Study Of Local Governments In Orlu Zenatorial Zone

ABSTRACT

Poor training and development of the local government employee, which has over time

resulted to poor input and output has become a menace to public service and Human

Resources Management. This research work x –rayed the impacts of staff training and

development on work attitudes, a study of local government areas in Orlu Senatorial Zone of

Imo State. A total of 100 questionnaires were administered to the employees of five (5)

statutory departments in the council on equal numbers of 20 each. Out of the 100

questionnaires administered 76 respondents returned their under usable conditions. This

represent a 64% responses rate while 24 questionnaires were not returned which represent a

36% none response rate. A tabular form with simple percentage was used to present the raw

data while the spearman’s rank order correlation technique was applied to analyze the

discretely scaled data. The hypothesis formula was tested with the Z test because the sample

population of this study is greater than fifty (50).The findings showed that staff training is

sine qua-non to staff development. Employees perform effectively, efficiently and

competently after undergoing training and development exercise. The study also revealed that

age, length of service and sex has impact on employee’s attitude to work. The research

recommended regular training of staff by the organizations. And having staff training and

development into the organizational goals. As a trained worker is an asset to the organization

and out-side society in general.