CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES OF CAPACITY BUILDING AND EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE IN UNIVERSITIES OF TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

The study assessed the challenges of capacity building and employee performance, while it also examined the effect of training on performance of employees and determined the extent to which employee’s job performance was influenced by leadership style in selected Universities of Technology, in Southwestern, Nigeria. The research employed a Correlation Design, which was due to the nature of the research as it found out relationship that exists between the dependent variable (employee’s job performance) and the independent variable (Capacity building in organizations).Primary data were sourced through administration of questionnaire to obtain data from the respondents in four universities of technology in Southwestern Nigeria, namely: Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH), Bells University of Science and Technology, Ota and Wesley University of Technology, Ondo (WUSTO). Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting three hundred (300) respondents, (100, 100, 50, 50) respectively from the universities using management, senior and junior staff for stratification. The data collected were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics at 0.05 level of significance. The independent t-test result revealed that the null hypothesis (Ho)   which said that there was no challenges facing capacity building on employees’ performance was rejected and the alternate hypothesis (H1) was accepted, which implied that the selected institutions faced challenges on attempt to facilitate and enhanced employees’ capacity building. The study also revealed that training and leadership style had positive effect on employees’ job performance in the institutions. In conclusion, Poor organisational decisions on the part of the management/leadership may result in wasted and ineffective capacity-building programmes. The study recommended that capacity building must be done periodically so as to effectively capture every area where training is necessary and the institutions should ensure staff oriented organizational structure, policies and frameworks of interpersonal relationship within the universities.