HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHERS’ PRODUCTIVITY IN ABEOKUTA SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA SECONDARY SCHOOLS, OGUN STATE

ABSTRACT

This study examined human resources development and teachers productivity in Abeokuta South Local Government Area Secondary Schools, Ogun State.

The research adopted a descriptive survey of correlation studies. Simple random sampling technique was used to select for the study from nine pupils secondary schools in Abeokuta South Local Government Area Secondary Schools, Ogun State. A research questionnaire entitled “Human Resources Development and Teacher’s Productivity Questionnaire” was used to collect data from the respondents which were validated by two experts in the Department of Educational Management. Four research hypotheses were formulated and tested for this study. The hypotheses were tested using Chi-square statistical method at 0.05 level of significance.

This result the findings revealed that there was significant relationship between retraining and development of teachers and teachers productivity in Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Secondary Schools. There was significant relationship between the working condition and teachers’ productivity in Abeokuta South Local Government Area Secondary Schools, Ogun State. There was significant relationship between promotion and teachers’ productivity in Abeokuta South Local Government Area Secondary Schools, Ogun State.

Based on the findings, it was recommended that schools should given special emphasis on improving their human resources development in the areas of team work, job definition, employee participation, compensation, career planning and training. The public schools should focus on the area of human resources development particularly the performance appraisal practices so as to enhance the quality of higher education. The school management should endeavour to motivate and encourage their staff professionally, especially the teaching staff.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1       BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Education is globally accepted as a vital tool for human development. It is equally an indispensable tool for enhancing economic growth and national development. Education is seen as a cornerstone of every development, forming the basis for literacy, skill acquisition, technological advancement as well as the ability to harness the natural resources of nation. Education is the process of facilitating learning or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, value, belief and habits. Education is a means by which the society ensures it stability. It is through the education system that young members of the society. Through education, individuals acquire usable and socially acceptable vocational skills with which one can be productive, which ensures individual and group survival. Importance of education tells us the value of education in our life. Education means a lot in everyone’s life as it facilitates our learning, knowledge and skill. It completely changes our mind and personality and helps us to attain the positive attitudes. The importance of education is described above justifies the recognition given to it by the Federal Government of Nigeria as stated in the National Policy of education that “the Federal Government of Nigeria has adopted education as an instrument par excellence for affecting national growth and development (Biodun, 2014). We must give importance to the education than other targets in life as it is the only source of real happiness in our life.

The development of any nation depends, to a very large extent, on the caliber, organization and motivation of its resources. In the specific cases of Nigeria, where diversity exerts tremendous influence on polities and administration, the capacity to increase the benefits and reduce the costs of this diversity constitutes a human resources management challenge of epic proportion in its public sector organizations (Adamolekun, 2015).

Human resource development is the framework for helping employees to develop their personal skills. Human resources development is the function within an organization that focuses on recruitment of, management of, and providing direction for the people who work in the organization.

According to Armstrong and Baron (2016), human resources development is the organizational function that deals with issues related to people such as compensation, hiring, management performance, organization development, safety, wellness, benefits, employee motivation, communication, training and administration. Human resources development is also a strategic and comprehensive approach to managing people and the workplace culture and environment human resources development is essential for any organization that would like to be dynamic and growth-oriented. Unlike other resources, human resources have rather unlimited potential capabilities, which aim at creating such climate that can continuously identify, bring to surface, nurture and use the capabilities of people.

Human resources development covers a wide range of activities. Human resources main area of study focus on all aspect of developing the superior workforce so that the organization and individual employees can accomplish their work goals in rendering service to customers.

According to Leonard Nadler (2007), human resource development is a series of organized activities, conducted within a specialized time and designed to produce behavioural changes and to succeed in a fast-changing environment, organizations can become dynamic and grow only through the effort and competencies of their human resources. Employee capabilities must continuously be acquired, sharpened, and used. For this purpose, an “enabling” organizational culture is essential. When employees uses their initiative, take risks, experiment, innovate, and make things happen, the organization may be said to have an “enabling” culture.

Management must work with people and as a result of the importance that managers assign to people who must work with them, terms such “human resources” “human capital” are used to demonstrate the difference that people made in the performance of a manager and consequently the enterprise. Managers must concern themselves with an analysis of organizational behaviour, that is, interaction of people with the organization. Manager must have a basic understanding of human behaviour in all respects – especially in the context of work groups and organizations. Larger production and higher motivation can be achieved only through good human relation. The study of management must draw the concepts and principles of various behavioural sciences like psychology and sociology.

Human relations is the process of training employees, addressing, their needs, fostering a workplace culture and resolving conflicts between different employees or between employees and management (Petryni Matt, 2007), human relation at work can be a major part of what makes business work employees must frequently work together on projects, communicate ideas, and provide motivation to get things done. Without a stable and inviting workplace culture, difficult challenges can arise both in the logistics of managing employees and in the bottom line. Business and a well-trained work force are more likely to retain and attract qualified employees, foster loyalty, with customers and more quickly adapt to meet the needs of a changing work place.

Research finding of Korman (2017) have shown that the productivity of a school teacher is determined by three major factors which include the ability of a school teacher, the wiliness to work, and situational factors. The public secondary schools are responsible for providing the public with essential services by the government. The public sectors is referred to as the government sectors, whether the Federal, State or Local Government. Public sectors organization are which emerged as a result of government acting in the capacity of an entrepreneur particularly in school system (Obikeze and Authony, 2014) in this respect, this study investigated human resources development and teachers productivity in Abeokuta South Local Government Area of Secondary School, Ogun State.