Employee Competency Development and Organisational Resilience

Abstract

The focus of this study was to determine the association between employee competency development and organisational resilience. Employee competency development was treated unidimensionally, while organisational resilience was measured using situation awareness, management of keystone vulnerabilities, adaptive capacity and resilience ethos. The study adopted an explanatory research design and used a questionnaire to collect primary data. Deposit money banks in Port Harcourt constituted the population of the study. Primary data collected from ninety-four (94) executives of twenty-two (22) deposit money banks, comprising of top and middle level managers were used in the final analyses of the study. The accidental sampling technique was employed to arrive at the test units. The study utilised the P(r) as the test statistic, relying on SPSS version 20.0. The study observed that employee competency development associates significantly with organisational resilience as the variable posted strong, positive and statistically significant relationship with all the measures of organisational resilience covered in the study. The study concludes that employee competency development influences organisational resilience; and that organisational resilience in terms of situation awareness, management of keystone vulnerabilities, adaptive capacity and resilience ethos depends on employee competency development and recommends that organisations (especially deposit money banks) that desire resilience that enhances sustainable growth should develop the competencies of their employees.