ABSTRACT

This research centres on training as a tool for greater productivity in the public sector using power holding company of Nigeria Umuahia as a case study. As identified in this research, lack of training in most public and private business sectors in Nigeria have profitability of such organizations. Consequently, the major objective of this research is to identify the cardinal impact of training workers, mostly in Nigeria public sector. In Power Holding Company of Nigeria, Umuahia was used based on its best representation of its workers productivity. The population of this study consists of 247 employees of PHCN; Composed of top and middle management and operatives. Six research questions and one hypothesis was formulated, which guided the study. A 21 item structured questionnaire was developed d to ensure the reliability of the study, simple percentage and chisquare (x2) were used to answer the research questions, while T-test JIiv was used to test the hypothesis at 0.95 level of significance. The researcher also used literature. The findings of the study include the following: 1. Training and refresher course programmes were found to be effective tools for checking employees obsolesced. 2. That training is an effective motivational tool and criteria for promotion. 3. certain constraint inhibit training programmes and these includes huge financial requirement, failure to apply training will results in the work place an absence of good evaluation technique. It was concluded that training is an effective tool for actualizing public sector business objectives and maintain continued existence against this background; it was recommended that organizations should organize training and refresher courses programmes for their employees more often and training should form the most relevant integral part of organization promotion and incentives i policies.