EFFECT OF HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES IN OPTIMIZING EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF ABIA STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, NGERIA

Abstract

The research focused on the effect of human capital development programmes in optimising employee performance in Abia State House of Assembly. Beyond the broad objective, the research specifically sought to: find out human capital development programmes employed in Abia State House of Assembly, and find out the relationship between the human capital development programmes employed in Abia State house of Assembly and the performance of their employees. The research adopted survey research design, primary and secondary data was used, and questionnaire and oral interview was used in eliciting information from the respondents. The Population of the study consist of three hundred and fifty seven (357) employees of the organisation, using Taro Yemen formula the sample size was deduce to be one hundred and eight nine (189), and simple random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Descriptive statistics and Logistic Regression analysis was used to analyse the data obtained with the aid of SPSS version 20. The analysis was based on one hundred and sixty five (165) questionnaire well filed and returned. The major findings revealed that human capital development programmes employed in Abia State House of Assembly includes: Training, Seminar, Workshop, and Skill Acquisition. With regards to the relationship between the human capital development programmes employed in Abia State House of Assembly and the performance of their employees, Logistic Regression result revealed that: training, seminars, workshops and skill acquisition are the human capital development programmes that are significantly related to the performance of employees. The researcher concluded that training, seminars, workshops, skill acquisition enhances employees performance when effectively and efficiently implemented and sustained, and thus, recommends that government should live up to their responsibility by adequately funding Abia State House of Assembly to enable them sustain the human capital development programmes in the organisation.