CONSTRUCTION WORKERS RATING OF EXTENT OF COMPLIANCE TO TRAINING AND MOTIVATION PRACTICES IN BUILDING INDUSTRIES IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

Building provides comfort, security, privacy and accommodation to occupant but adverse to this
is incessant building collapse that claimed lives and properties of peoples in Anambra State. This
study investigated the extent of compliance to training and motivation practices in building
industry in Anambra State. Two research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were
tested at 0.05 level of significance. A survey research design was adopted for the study. A total
of 304 out of 1,240 construction workers in building industries that were registered with
Ministry of Housing Anambra State were randomly sampled. A structured questionnaire was
used to ascertain ratings of construction workers on extent of compliance to training and
motivation practices in building industry. Three experts carried out face and content validations
of the instrument. Cronbach’s alpha reliability test was used to determine the reliability of the
instrument and the results were 0.76 and 0.76 for training and motivation practices. The result of
the reliability test yielded a value of 0.76 for the entire items which shows that the instrument
has a high internal consistency and therefore considered suitable for the study. Mean and
standard deviation were used to answer research questions, while Analysis of Variance
(ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. It was found out that training and motivation
practices were mostly rated to moderate extent by the construction workers. It was recommended
that human resource managers should strictly comply to training and motivation practices in
building industries.