TRAINING PROGRAM AT ORGANISATION TASK AMONG EMPLOYEES AT OGUN STATE TELEVISION (OGTV), ABEOKUTA,

Improved capabilities, knowledge and skills of the talented workforce proved to be a 1.1 Background to the Study major source of competitive advantage in a global market (Hongal and Kinange 2020). To develop the desired knowledge, skills and abilities of the employees, to perform well on the job, requires effective training programs that may also affect employee motivation and commitment (Sinambela et al., 2022). In order to prepare their workers to do their job as desired, organizations provides training as to optimize their employee’s potential. Most of the firms, by applying long term planning, invest in the building new skills by their workforce, enabling them to cope with the uncertain conditions that they may face in future, thus, improving the employee performance through superior level of motivation and commitment (Agrawal et al., 2020). When employees recognizes their organization interest in them through offering training programs, they in turn apply their best efforts to achieve organizational goals, and show high performance on job (Khan et al., 2020). Employees are the most valuable asset of every company as they can make or break a company’s reputation and can adversely effect profitability (Barauskaite and Streimikiene 2021). Employees often are responsible for the great bulk of necessary work to be done as well as customer satisfaction and the quality of products and events. Without proper training, employees both new and current do not receive the information and develop the skill sets necessary for accomplishing their tasks at their maximum potential (Chanana and Sangeeta 2021). Employees who undergo proper training tend to keep their jobs longer than those who do not (Lin and Huang 2021). Training is a necessity in the workplace. Without it, employees don't have a firm grasp on their responsibilities or duties.Employee training refers to programs that provide workers with information, new skills, or professional development opportunities.The companies aimed at gaining the competitive advantage realized the importance of training in improving the employee’sperformance (Koentjoro and Gunawan 2020). Past researches provides the evidence regarding the positive affect of training programs on both employee and organizational performance (Ahmed et al., 2020). On one hand previous work in the field proved that effective training programs leads to superior return on investment while the other researche