HUMAN RESOURCE TRAINING AND ORGANISATIONAL GROWTH: A STUDY OF DANGOTE FLOUR MILLS PLC, ILORIN

I. OMOLABI; A.A. ISHOLA; K. A. ABDULKAREEM; O. A. OLABANJI

I. OMOLABI Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.
A.A. ISHOLA Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
K. A. ABDULKAREEM Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
O. A. OLABANJI Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

Keywords: Human Resource Development (HRD), Training, Organisational Growth, On-the-Job training, Off-the-Job training

Abstract

The relevance of skill and knowledge enhancement to organisational growth cannot be over-emphasized as individual performance amounts to collective organisational growth. It is based on this assertion that this study investigated Dangote Flour Mills Plc, Ilorin. Structured questionnaires were used to collect primary data from 145 simple randomly selected staff of the company. Multiple regression analysis was adopted in the analysis while the result indicated that the correlation coefficient r is .782 (i.e., r = 0.782). The result revealed that there is a strong positive linear relationship between organisation growth and human resource training. The study thus concluded that effective training is primary to equipping employees for new roles that will facilitate the realization of the desired organisational growth. It then recommended that the management of Dangote Flour Mill Plc should lay more emphasis on the importance of training to improve organisational growth. This will be achieved through periodic skill and competency auditing that will reflect the skill shortages in the company. In addition, the management of the flour mill is to ensure a strict monitoring system that will guarantee adherence to the human resource development policy of the company.

Author Biographies

I. OMOLABI, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria.

A.A. ISHOLA, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

K. A. ABDULKAREEM, Department of Public Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria

O. A. OLABANJI, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria