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Managerial Competence And Training Needs Of Poultry Farmers
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Training in simple terms refers to the imparting of specific skills,
ability and knowledge through appropriate educational methodology to
improve performance and efficiency of the trainee. Training is any
attempt to improve current or future employee performance by increasing
an employee’s ability to perform through learning, usually by changing
the employee’s attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge.
Training needs depends on lack or deficiency in skills. The need for
training and development is determined by employee’s performance
deficiency computed as follows
Training need = standard performance ¬- actual performance. (Human Resources Management,2010).
Training
is basically classified into lectures and on-the-job training. Lecture
is the kind of training that takes place off-site i.e. in classrooms or
lecture halls. It is used because of its low cost and its capacity to
reach many people at a time. It is referred to as a one- way training
device and it is sometimes criticized as a training device. On-the-job
training takes place at the place of primary assignment. It is most time
used as a supplement for the off-site training since it is usually
impossible to teach someone everything she needs to know at a location
off-site.
Since training is so crucial in developing individual’s
managerial ability, it may be referred to as the basis of economic
development. Going by the quote by Thomas and portal, (1992) which says
development is achieved through investing in human capital and raising
the productivity capacity of the society, also the economist school of
taught who viewed development primarily in terms of a nation’s relative
prosperity, it is therefore of great need that the poultry farmers in
Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State and those in Nigeria
as a whole be assessed to determine whether they need training in order
to increase their competence for better management of their farms.
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