CAPACITY BUILDING AND JOB PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM EMPLOYEES IN PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
Keywords:
Capacity Building, Employee Job Performance, Private Organization, Training, MentoringAbstract
The study examined the relationship between capacity building and employees job performance in private organization. Two null hypotheses guided the study. A correlational research design was adopted to achieve the purpose of the study. The population of the study comprised all the staff of Nigerian Breweries, Imagbon, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Nigeria. A purposive sampling technique were used to select 75 staff of the Nigerian Breweries. A self-developed instrument, titled: Capacity Building and Employees Job Performance was used for data collection as reliability coefficient value of 0.86. Hypotheses 1 and 2 were tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. The findings revealed that there was significant relationship between training and employees job performance (r = 0.334, P<.05) in private organization. There was significant relationship between mentoring and employees job performance (r = 0.363, P<.05) in private organization. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that the management of private organization should endeavour to make mentoring a responsibility for certain categories of employees. That is making it mandatory through a policy instrument with associated incentives for senior employees to engage in mentoring junior colleagues as these practices should be considered as part of the organizations strategy to improve on the performance of the employees.
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