OKWURUME, Clarance Nkasirim
Department of Management
Faculty of Management Sciences
Rivers State University, Port Harcourt
okwurume.clarance@ust.edu.ng
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the relationship between employee training and organizational performance of
deposit money banks in Rivers State. This study adopted a quasi-experimental design. The population of
the study include deposit money banks with operational presence in Rivers State. The study surveyed a
total of 121 employees of these banks. Structured questionnaire was used to collect primary data.
Spearman rank order correlation was employed to test the hypotheses formulated for the study, with the
help of SPSS version 20.0. The study reveals that on-the-job training has a significant relationship with
efficiency and standard performance. It was also realized that off-the-job training has a significant
relationship with efficiency. Nevertheless, off-the-job training had a very weak significance with
standard performance. Thus, the study concluded that training enhances performance of deposit money
banks. The study recommends that deliberate efforts should be made to train and develop their
employees if they seek to achieve improved performance in terms of efficiency and standard
performance.
Keywords: Efficiency, on-the-job training, off-the-job training, standard performance