Human capital development and employee performance in tertiary institutions in Enugu state
Keywords:
Human capital development, Tertiary institutions, Education acquisition, Lesson plan, Skills development, Effective instructional designAbstract
The study examined effect of human capital development on employee performance in tertiary Institutions in Enugu State. Specifically, the sought to: determine the effect of education acquisition on effective lesson plan of tertiary Institutions in Enugu State and ascertain the effect of skills development on effective instructional design of tertiary Institutions in Enugu State. Research design was descriptive survey research. The sample size of 343 respondents was taken from population of 2,403 male and female staff of five tertiary institutions in Enugu State. The area of the study was Enugu State Nigeria. The selected tertiary Institutions in Enugu State includes University of Nigeria Enugu campus (UNEC), Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Godfrey Okoye University Enugu (GO University) and Peaceland University Enugu. Research questions were answered using mean score and standard deviation. The hypotheses stated were tested using single least square techniques. The empirical results showed that education acquisition has significant effect on effective lesson plans of tertiary Institutions in Enugu State (t-statistic; 6.445; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05) and skills development has significant effect on effective instructional design of tertiary Institutions in Enugu State (t-statistic; 11.826; p-value; 0.000 < Sig-value; 0.05). The study concludes that there is a positive and significant effect of human capital development on employee performance in tertiary Institutions in Enugu State. The study recommended that management of tertiary institutions should formulate effective policies that should focus on improved creativity and educational level of staff in the tertiary institutions. The policy should also discourage employees leaving the institutions after the acquisition of skills to avoid loss of efforts.
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