Training and development on employee productivity of selected beverage companies in Southwest, Nigeria

Abstract

The inadequacy of skills, sometimes due to a lack of organisations to provide up-skilling, knowledge and abilities, is responsible for inefficiency and low productivity. Training influences employees' attitudes, abilities, and skills for current and future jobs. The study examined the relationship between training and development and employee productivity of selected beverage companies in Southwest Nigeria. The study comprises 306 respondents who are employees of 7up Bottling Company, Lagos and International Breweries Company, Ilesa in Osun state. It adopted descriptive research design to a target population of 1,267 employees of beverage companies and a sample size of 317 derived using Taro Yamane formula. Data was collected randomly with a well-structured questionnaire. Only 306 copies of the questionnaire was adopted and used for data analysis. The analysis of the variable was done through simple linear regression. Findings show that training and development has a positive and significant effect on employee productivity at p <0.05. The study concluded that training and development boost the productivity of employees and the organisation. It was recommended that beverage companies see training as part of organisational strategy and ensure it is well planned. Beverage companies should embrace on-the-job and off-the job training techniques.