AN EMPIRICAL REVIEW OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYEES' JOB PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Human Capital Development is the process of enhancing employees’ skills, knowledge, and competencies so as to improve job performance. Human capital development initiatives were set up by Edo State Government in recent times to improve job performance in Edo State civil service. The aim of the study was to assess the Impact of human capital development on employees’ job performance. The objectives are to find out the outcome of behavioral mentoring on staff’s punctuality to work, establish the corollary of rules sensitization on employees’ attendance work and to reveal the consequence of scholastic upgrading on personnel’s quality of work. The study adopted the qualitative method of data collection, data were collected from secondary sources like books, journals, online materials, with regards to human capacity development and employees job performance in Edo state service. The bureaucratic theory and human capital theory were the theories adopted for the discourse. The study concludes that human capital development initiatives are indispensable tools for achieving efficiency and sustainability in public service. It further recommended that Edo State Civil Service should establish formal mentoring frameworks where senior officers guide juniors through professional ethics, service conduct, and performance improvement.