CAPACITY BUILDING AS A PREDICTOR OF PROFESSIONALLY-TRAINED SECRETARIES’ JOB EFFECTIVENESS
Keywords:
Capacity Building, Government Ministries, Job Effectiveness, Ogun State Public Services, Professionally-Trained SecretariesAbstract
The study examined capacity building as a predictor of professionally-trained secretaries’ job effectiveness in Ogun State Public Services. Two research questions guided the study. The study used a quantitative research design of survey type. The population of this study comprised all professionally-trained secretaries in Government Ministries in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State. A total of 75 secretaries from Government ministries in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State were selected as sample size using purposive sampling technique. Also, stratified sampling technique was also adopted to ensure gender sensitivity is attained. Researcher developed instrument tagged: Capacity Building and Professionally-Trained Secretaries’ Job Effectiveness Questionnaire was used for data collection with a reliability coefficient value of 0.85. Research question 1 was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Research question 2 was answered using Pearson’s correlation. The findings revealed that training, workshop, seminar, ICT training and conferences were among the needed capacity building for professionally-trained secretaries’ job effectiveness in Ogun State Public Services. There was relationship between capacity building and professionally-trained secretaries’ job effectiveness in Ogun State Public Services (r = 0.830, P<.05). Conferences, seminars and workshops should be organized from time to time for training and re-training of professionally-trained secretaries on online networking technologies. Confidential secretaries should endeavor to make personal efforts to update their online skills in order to be professionally relevant and be up-to-date.
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