Influence of Gender Factors on Workers’ Attitude towards Training Programmes in Selected Organizations in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Abstract

Influence of gender factors on workers’ attitude towards training programme shows training
as an instrument that brings about change for everyone in employment including women in
order to bring about positive attitude in organizations. However, there exists inequalities of
training opportunities by gender in Nigeria. This is not because government deliberately put
up any policy to deny women access to training but for the existence of some prejudice arising
from socio-cultural set-up which put the women at a disadvantaged position in our organizations
here in Nigeria. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The study target
population consists of employees in three (3) selected organizations with a total population
for the study which is estimated at 6,800. However, a five percent (5%) of the total population
of each Organization were chosen as sample elements for the study which indicates that 325
respondents were used. The data was collected through a questionnaire titled “influence of
gender factors on workers’ attitude towards training programmes in selected organizations in
Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria”. Simple random sampling technique was to select 325 respondents
used for the study. The data was collected through a questionnaire and analysis was done
using Pearson r correlation to test 4 hypotheses at 5% level of significance. (r=.432, p<.05).
The study established that there was significant relationship between gender factors and
workers’ attitude (r= 943, p<.05). The study also revealed that there was a significant
relationship between workers’ attitude and Age of last child (r=.751, p<.05). We also have
sign relationship between Workers attitude and marital status (r=.762, p<.05). There is
also no significant influence between workers’ religious affiliation and workers attitude
(r=.312, p<.05). There is no significant relationship observed between training on workers’
Educational attainment and workers attitude (r=.148, p<.05). The implication of the above is to work towards avoiding the erroneous beliefs that women do
not like to be involved or attend training programmes. Instead, government and people in
places of authority in organizations should put necessary machinery in motion to make
women get more involved, interested and attracted to training programmes in order to derive
increased and maximum productivity from women through continuous training to achieve
Organizational goals and national development.