Training Transfer: A Panacea for Sustainable Organizational Development in Nigeria

Abubakar Salihu

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Training transfer is the field which is concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in an organizational setting. Training focuses on doing activities today to develop employees for their current jobs while development is preparing employees for future roles and responsibilities. The objective of training and development is to create learning organizations which ensure that employees, through value addition, can effectively perform their jobs, check competitive advantage and seek self-growth. This that the paper was aimed at investigating the training transfer of employees for organizational development in Nigeria. The study utilized expectancy and equity theories as its theoretical framework in understanding the training transfer as the panacea for organizational development in Nigeria. Qualitative method of data collection and content analysis procedure were utilized. The paper found out that training of staff has a correlation with improving efficiency, productivity and better performance of employees in Nigeria’s organizational setting. The paper therefore recommended that such programmes must involve every employee irrespective of their cadre and should be directly related to the job of each employee for it to be impactful. We are in a fast changing world and so organizations need to change with it and this cannot be achieved without training/transfer of employees to meet up with the current global standard.

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