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

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.