The Appraisal of Manpower Development on Employees’ Productivity, Career Development and Competence In Some Selected Organizations in Abakaliki Metropolis, Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Abstract

Manpower development plays a potential role in developing work characteristics to promote meaningfulness such as career development, training, feedback and mentoring. Sequel to this, this study examined manpower development on employees’ productivity, career development and competence in some selected organizations in Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi state, Nigeria. The study adopted survey research design and simple random sampling technique was used to select the sample size from the respondents. A total of 200 respondents were selected from the population and structured questionnaires to same sample size in which 180 responses were accurate and found analyzable for this study. The findings of the study showed that 170 respondents (85%) agreed that manpower development has enhanced their efficiency and job productivity. Another 175(87.5%) were excited talking about their competence and success in their organizations. Further, 165(82.5%) of the respondents overwhelming agreed that manpower development enhanced their career and organizational performance. in Abakaliki metropolis, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Based on the findings, the study concluded that manpower development is a work activity that can make a very significant contribution to the overall effectiveness and profitability of organizations, it can increase productivity, improve quality of work, enhance skills, knowledge, understanding and improve attitude, improvement of the use of tools and machine; abandonment of archaic skills, technologies, methods, products, and capital management. Following this, the study recommended that manpower development should be given priority so as to enhance employees’ productivity, career development and competence in the selected organizations thus increasing their job satisfaction in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Secondly, manpower development should be recognized as continuous development programme towards motivating employees to perform exceptionally