Training, Development and Employee Productivity in Radio Stations in Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

The research study seeks to find out the extent of staff development in Radio stations so as to 
find out if the developmental trainings are sufficient to enhance productivity of staff and 
efficient running of radio stations in Ogun State. The study also finds out the extent to which 
staff development has influence on workers’ productivity, hence, the reason for advocating for 
more developmental trainings for members of staff of radio stations. The investigation is 
grounded by the Goal Setting Theory while descriptive survey research method and 
questionnaires involving one private and one public owned radio stations in Ogun state are 
adopted for this study. Simple random sampling technique is used to choose sample size of 
seventy (70) members of staff from the two radio stations and findings indicates that more 
developmental trainings need to be frequently organised in order to enhance workers 
productivity. Also, more workers would be productive with access to relevant developmental 
trainings; especially training that has to do with technological development.