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Impact of Training and Development on Business Organization
Growth:A Case Study of Okitipupa Oil Palm Industry
AJAJA, O.B. ; Adekanmbi, J.A
Department of Business Education, College of Education, Ikere-Ekiti. Nigeria.
E-mail: kayodeajaja3@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The major purpose of this study was to
determine the impact of training and
development of an organization. A case
study of Okitipupa oil mill. Specifically, the
study sought to determine impact of training
on the productivity of the organization,
impact of training on the staff of the
organization, impact of development on the
productivity of the organization and impact
of development four research questions were
drawn for the study. A two-part structured
questionnaire containing five items in part A
and twenty item in part B was developed as
the instrument which was administered
personally on the sample in the oil mill
yielding a 100 percent return findings
revealed that the impact of training on the
productivity of the oil mill included the staff
receiving training in line with the need of
the organization. The staff was able to
perform jobs requiring higher technical
know-how, the staff given training,
effectively operate the existing machines for
higher productivity, the training acquired by
the staff. The impact of training on the staff
included enjoying on-the-job training,
giving opportunity for outside training
giving service as motivation.
In the organization, all categories of staff
enjoy training programme, the impact of
development on the productivity of the oil
mill include adequate expansion of the
organization, the organization producing
large quality of products, the staff work with
confidence on the job, staff development has
change the behaviour of the staff. High
grade oil is eventually produced throughout
the year in the organization. The impact of
development on staff of the oil mill included
influencing more productivity, job
satisfaction improved communication in the
organization, job mobility and career-long
staff development. It was recommended that
organization should encourage training of
their personnel for higher productivity on
the part of the organization and upward
mobility of the staff. The outcome of this
study should be made available to Okitipupa
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Oil mill for the improvement of both its
production and staff.
INTRODUCTION
Organization have existed not only
to facilitate production but, also, for
example to make and enforce legal decision
and decide upon and administer government
policies. Organizations do not grow by
chance. Before they can develop a series of
changes in society had occur to sufficient
level of scientific and economy development
to produce a surplus of resources great
enough to release personnel to perform
specialized technical roles.
What is an organization? The
sociologist defined organization as bodies,
persisting over times, which are specially
setup to achieve specific aims. Organization
differs from community and society not only
in having explicit goals, but in the means,
used to achieve them. For instance Etzion
(2007) stated that organization are
characterize by
1. Division of labour, of power and of
communication and responsibilities such
division are deliberately planned to achieve
certain goals
2. The presence of power-centers which
control the concerted efforts of the
organization and continuously effort review
its performance and re-pattern its structure,
where necessary so as to increase its
efficiency.
3. The substitution of person that is,
unsatisfactory person can be remove and
other assigned their tasks and people can
transferred and promoted.
According to Pearson (1964) organization is
a social system which is deliberately
constituted are reconstituted to seek specific
goal and value where goals are ends to attain
and values are thing held sacred-that is,
belief value which may be rational or
irrational.
Ogbum and Nicoff (1964) gives fives
feature common to organization. They
include:-
1. Collective identity: - that is,
organization can be identified by name,
function and purpose.
2. Membership is discrete. Most
organization have register or way to identify
their members and know who belong.
3. Definite recruitment process
which is laid down.
4. Process of denying member of
their right and individual privileges e.g
church have list of current members, rules
for accepting members.
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5. Formal organization has a
purpose of function which the founding
fathers are not to achieve e.g universities- to
learn.
6. It is relatively permanent. It
exists overtime from generation to
generation. This presupposes that members
are less permanent that the organization.
Individual come and go but principle
and truth remain and the organization
continuous. There are two forms of
organization the traditional social
organization this include, trade, family and
national and the complex form organization
such as manufacturing, educational,
medical. The Okitipupa oil palm industry
belongs to this complex formal organization.
In order to sustain the life and goal of
organization especially business
organization, there is the need to recruit well
trained, workers. Training is a factor that
must be taken into serious consideration in
any business organization to sustain and
achieve major goals.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The Okitipupa oil mill is a well- established industry or business organization
it is established in the year 1977 as one of
the industries established by the Ondo-State
government.
The objective of the organization is
to produce quality palm oil. It has its Board
of Directors usually appointed by the
government. It also has management
comprises or headed by general manager
with chains of sub-ordinate. The Okititpupa
oil palm mill too off with 515.2 hectares of
oil palm plantation. It has contribution to
social economy growth of the immediate
community and OndoState at large.
The organization accommodates
over one thousand staff of difference
categories or level status. The organization
operates like any other established
organization such as recruiting staff,
providing on-the-job and outside skill
training. It is also gives promotion to the
organization cater for both organizational
and personal (staff) goals. The organization
is involved in training and development
programmes
Therefore this study is to determine
the impact of training and development
going on in the organization on both the
organization as an industry and the
personnel in the industry.
1.2 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
