EFFECT OF TRAINING ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN AN ORGANIZATION

The study investigated Effects of Employees Training as management strategic tool for enhancing employee performance in Nigerian banking with the case study of First Bank Ado Ekiti. The specific objectives of the study are to fine out the effect of how Training enhances employee performance in Nigerian Banking and they include: What is the effect of training on employees self confidence? What is the important of training on enhancement of employee performance? To what extent does on the job training resulted to employee performance. With the case study, descriptive survey form of research design method was adopted for this study using one hundred and thirty three valid questionnaires which were completed by First Bank Ekiti-State, Nigeria using simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants. The research instrument designed and used for the study was questionnaire (open ended), with materials from libraries and other research units which formed the sources of primary data, and of which 120 questionnaires were administered. Data gathered were analyzed using frequency table (univariate and bivariate) and percentage. The findings of the research work show that employee training as strategy has positive impact on any organizational performance. by acquiring Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude in other to enhance employees performance effectively. Training is important for the survival of any organization. The study recommends that the Banks should expose all their staff to training at least once in every year. This will make the employees to meet up with the changes in their services and bank management should not relent in their quest to train their staff to develop new ideas that will keep improving and retaining employee performance.