Summary
This study aimed at examining the Effect of Training and Development in Healthcare Delivery System, using some selected Local Government Health Institutions in Edo State as a focal point.
The essence of the study was to essentially examine the needs, contributions or otherwise of manpower training to the growth of an organization and how it is practiced in the public sector.
To achieve this aim, three objectives and three hypotheses were formulated. The three hypotheses were derived from the statement of the problems to facilitate the data analysis. The study was restricted to staff of selected Local Government in Edo State. The simple random sampling method was used to select 250 respondents from among the staff of the studied eight Local Government Areas of Edo State; out of which only 170 participated actively. To test the hypotheses, data were collected with the aid of questionnaire; the data generated through the instrument were analyzed using the simple percentage. Related documents and literatures were utilized to elicit information for this study.
This study revealed that job performance will increase with adequate provision of funds and infrastructures for manpower training and development, also that manpower training and development would improve productivity in the Local Government health sector.
Furthermore, it was revealed that lack of adequate manpower training and development will not increase labour productivity.
On the whole, the study revealed the need for manpower training as it improves not only the productivity of the employees, also that of the organization as a whole.
The assumption that productivity would not be improved if staff is sent on regular training because their duties would be abandoned was proved wrong.
It was also discovered that manpower makes an organization grow. And that induction or orientation course is not viewed seriously for junior staff in the public sector. This assumption was substantiated by the high number of responses obtained from the analysis.
