Human Capital Development Effects on Employees' Performance in Public Hospitals in Nigeria. A Study of Federal Medical Centre, Bida.

Abstract

The study examined human capital development effects on employee’s performance in public hospital in Nigeria. Methodology used for the study cover both primary and secondary sources of data collection. Survey research design was adopted. The population of study is 1578 comprises of medical and non-medical staff of Federal Medical Centre, Bida. The tools that were used in analyzing data collected include simple percentages, and one sample t-test analysis. The study revealed that training and development has a significant positive influence on employee’s performance. Level of former education and level of work experience has a positive significant influence on employee performance. Therefore, it was concluded that human capital development has a significant positive effect on employee performance, thereby recommends that management should have compulsory training programmes for all employees in order to make them more productive and to improve performance. The study recommends that management should live up to their responsibility by adequately funding training, seminar, and conference programs to enable them sustain human capital development programs in FMC, Bida.