The Analysis of Human Resources Development as a Critical Factor on Organizational Productivtiy

Abstract

This paper is on the analysis of Human Resources Development as a critical factor on Organization productivity. The study aims to determine the extent at which effective human resources development can enhance productivity in order to reduce poor performance in organization, to determine the efficiency of human resources training and development in organization growth, to ascertain if human resource development have many significant impact on organizational profitability, to determine and identify the factors affecting human resource development and organizational productivity and to ascertain the attitude of the senior management and other employees on the need for proper utilization of available human resources which have tremendous effect on the firms productivity. The five research questions and three hypotheses were formulated in line with the objectives of the study. To achieve the aims of the study, data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. Data collected were analyzed by use of means, variance and standard deviation and three hypothesis formulated were tested using z-test statistical tool. Based on the analysis, the study found that human resource development is very vital to any organizations ranging from small to large scale enterprises since it is well known that no business can exist entirely without human being, also that one of the major functions of human resource development is the engagement of people to work in order to achieve sales growth and profitability, another finding is that the method of training and development as gathered from interview conducted by the researcher are just by reason of the problems the company has due to lack of fund. Based on the finding of the study, the researcher recommends that organization should inculcate the habit of attending seminars and conferences, the company should make sure that the effort of employees are appraised from time to time to find out how they contribute to the achievement of organizational goals and also educational qualification must be pre-requisite for the recruitment, selection, promotion and placement of workers.

Keywords: Human Resources, Organization, Productivity, Management and Motivations.