Jummy is an experienced lecturer and trainer with more than 10 years experience of teaching both at undergraduate and post graduate level with several UK higher education institutions. She has got extensive capability in providing teaching and training services in Human Resources Management, Learning and Development, Business Information systems, Personal Development planning, Continuos Professional Development and E-Learning. she is also an experienced distance learning writer, blended learning practitioner and a work based learning supervisor. 

Employability and career management 

• Entrepreneurship
• Human Resource management
• Organisational behaviour
• Training & Development
• Coaching and mentoring
• HRD

BA in HRM 

People Organisation and management

Career management

People Resourcing

Developing People

Organisational climate and performance: Case study of Nigerian High growth SMEs.

Challenges and prospects of HRD: A case study of Nigerian SMEs

Fellow of Higher Education Academy

Chartered Member of Institute of Personnel Development

Challenges and prospects of HRD: A case study of Nigerian SMEs 

Literature search reveal the fact that Nigerian SMEs under invest in HRD (Patton 2005) and most times do not invest in HRD at all (Chidi & Shadare; 2011) due to labour turnover, cost, lack of training philosophy and apathy among owner-managers factors. For instance for labour turnover, there are general concerns around retaining trained employees which may be due to several reasons: general attitude to work, cultural, economic or absence of psychological contract between the employees and the organisation. There are new emergent SMEs with owner/managers who have international experience (Omar et al 2009), who are willing and actively embrace training and developing their staff. The thrust of this study is to investigate whether such organisations are reaping the benefits of HRD investment and to what extent does HRD reflect in their business performance. Consequently this study seeks to: 1) Review HRD policies and practices in Nigerian SMEs, 2) explore the inherent benefits and challenges faced by SMEs in embracing HRD, 3) discuss the approaches, perspectives and experiences of the case study organisation.