Enhancing Employees’ Commitment to Organisation through Training

Abstract

The role of training in human resource management practice has spur renewed and vigorous debate about theneed for training and development. The debate has led academics and management to ponder on some issuesgermane to the benefits or otherwise of training. Is training an investment in people or cost? If training isrequired, what are the criterion used to determine who should be trained and when to train? These questions havepermeated management circle and those in HRM department. Recent years have seen training terms renamed astraining and development or learning and development, a sign of the spate of debate on the issue. Given theseflurry, this paper explores the relationship between training and employees’ commitment to their organisation.The paper was based on a survey of 250 employees and management staff of a financial firm based in the SouthWestern part of Nigeria. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to conduct several forms ofanalysis. The analysis revealed some evidence that suggest a positive statistical significant relationship betweenthe different levels of training and employees’ commitment to organisation. A regression analysis was conductedon the data collected. The study revealed a positive statistical significant relationship between the different levelsof training and employees’ commitment to the organisation. The paper concludes that the more the traininggiving to employees, the higher their level commitment to the organisation.