Influence of Gender Factors on Workers’ Attitude towards Training Programmes in Selected Organizations in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

Influence of gender factors on workers’ attitude towards training programme shows trainingas an instrument that brings about change for everyone in employment including women inorder to bring about positive attitude in organizations. However, there exists inequalities oftraining opportunities by gender in Nigeria. This is not because government deliberately putup any policy to deny women access to training but for the existence of some prejudice arisingfrom socio-cultural set-up which put the women at a disadvantaged position in our organizationshere in Nigeria. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The study targetpopulation consists of employees in three (3) selected organizations with a total populationfor the study which is estimated at 6,800. However, a five percent (5%) of the total populationof each Organization were chosen as sample elements for the study which indicates that 325respondents were used. The data was collected through a questionnaire titled “influence ofgender factors on workers’ attitude towards training programmes in selected organizations inIbadan, Oyo state, Nigeria”. Simple random sampling technique was to select 325 respondentsused for the study. The data was collected through a questionnaire and analysis was doneusing Pearson r correlation to test 4 hypotheses at 5% level of significance. (r=.432, p<.05).The study established that there was significant relationship between gender factors andworkers’ attitude (r= 943, p<.05). The study also revealed that there was a significantrelationship between workers’ attitude and Age of last child (r=.751, p<.05). We also havesign relationship between Workers attitude and marital status (r=.762, p<.05). There isalso no significant influence between workers’ religious affiliation and workers attitude(r=.312, p<.05). There is no significant relationship observed between training on workers’Educational attainment and workers attitude (r=.148, p<.05). The implication of the above is to work towards avoiding the erroneous beliefs that women donot like to be involved or attend training programmes. Instead, government and people inplaces of authority in organizations should put necessary machinery in motion to makewomen get more involved, interested and attracted to training programmes in order to deriveincreased and maximum productivity from women through continuous training to achieveOrganizational goals and national development.