INFLUENCE OF DEMOGRAPHICS ON ON-THE-JOB-SUCCESS OF FEMALE CIVIL SERVANTS AFTER IN-SERVICE-TRAINING IN OYO AND OGUN STATES, NIGERIA

Abstract

The need for workers’ training has increased because of technological advancement. In-service training enhances the performance of workers and engenders workers on-the-job-success. Skill acquisition and on-the-job-success remain at very low level for females. Also, there is little literature on in-service training and on-the-job-success. This study examined the extent to which the demographics (Age, Marital Status, Educational Qualification, Cadre and Socio-economic Status) influenced on-the-job-success of female civil servants after in-service training programme. The population for the study was all female civil servants on Ogun and Oyo states. Survey design was adopted and purposive sampling procedure was used to select 1,033 female civil servants that participated in in-service training. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation and multiple regression at p ? 0.05 significance level. Educational qualification (? = -.116, t (1026) = -3.10, p < 0.05), Socio-economic Status (? = 0.20, t (1026) = 4.95, p < 0.05) and Marital Status (?=-0.073, t=(1026)=0.035, p<0.05) correlated significantly with on-the-job-success of the female civil servants, while Age ( ? = -0.026, t (1026) = 0.069, p > 0.05), and Cadre (?=-0.035, t (1026) = 0.365, p>0.05) did not. Single women with low socio-economic status and low educational qualification performed better on their job. The study recommended that government should endeavour to sustain policies that can encourage younger and married women in civil service to participate in in-service training and engender increase their on-the-job success.