ABSTRACT

Manpower training and development on organizational effectiveness was examined with special reference to Aba North Local Government. The specific objectives ofthe study were to determine how inadequate planning affects manpower development in an organization, examine how communication barrier affects organizational effectiveness, ascertain, to what extent manpower development bridges the gap in the knowledge and skills of employees and to examine how training and development of employees facilitate organizational effectiveness. The study was guided by a descriptive survey design because it gives detailed information about issues, problems, events and describes events as they are. Both primary and secondary data were used. The population of the study was 500 employees and the sample size of 222 respondents was obtained using simple random sampling. The researcher used questionnaire for data collection. The data gatheredfor the study was analyzed using descriptive analysis i. e. frequency, mean and percentage. Inferential statistic i.e. regression analysis and correlation was used to test hypotheses with the aid ofstatisticalpackagesfor social sciences (SPSS). The result ofthis study showed that there is significant and positive relationship between manpower planning and organizational effectiveness (r = 0.295; p = 0.001 < 0.05 level ofsignificance). The studyfurther revealed that inadequate planning and lack ofeffective communication are among the challenges that affect manpower development in an organization (X2c = 121.765 > X2t = 26.296; p < 0.05) also, the study attested that manpower development to a high extent bridges the gap in the knowledge and skill ofemployees (r = 0.787, p < 0.05), finally, the study revealed that training and development of employee facilitates organizational effectiveness. The researcher recommended that there should be regular manpower training and development ofstaffs in service organizations.