ORGANISATIONAL TRAINING AND EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION IN SELECTED TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

Abstract

Contemporary organisations depend on well-trained personnel who will accomplish their assigned tasks. Thus, the survival of many organisations in a competitive society lies in the ability to train human resources who are creative, innovative, and inventive to enhance performance and increase competitive advantage. Therefore, the broad objective of the study is to examine the effect of organisational training on job satisfaction of employees in selected Federal, State, and Private tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. While the specific objective examined the relationship between organisational flexibility and employee commitment in selected Federal, State, and Private tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. The study was anchored on Organisation Learning Theory developed by Argyris, Schon, and Muth (1986). A survey research design was adopted for the study. A primary source of data was employed with a sample of three hundred and forty-eight (348) employees. Regression analysis was used to test the formulated hypothesis. The result obtained from the test of the formulated hypothesis revealed that a positively significant relationship exists between organisational flexibility and employee commitment since (F-statistics = 78.1; R-Squared = 0.772, P>0.05 ).  Based on the findings, the study concluded that there exists a strong significant positive relationship between organisational training and employee job satisfaction in Selected Tertiary Institutions of South-South, Nigeria. Sequel to conclusion, the study recommended that the studied tertiary institutions need to strive towards the culture of organisational flexibility as this will lead to employee commitment and improved performance of tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria.