NITAD inducts new members, urges respect for ethics

The Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD) has inducted new members into its fold with a charge that they uphold the ethics of the profession and make meaningful contribution to the growth of the nation’s economy. In his lecture titled: “HRD Challenge: Aligning Employee Learning and Development with Performance Management”, the guest speaker, Ola Azeez, highlighted the challenges of human resource development and exposed the audience to various practical approaches to optimally managing the performance of employees for efficient and effective service delivery in the world of work. According to the tradition, the institute, through its first Vice–President, Mr. B.A. Salawu, gave the inductees orientation on the professional ethics, code of conducts and rules and regulations governing the institute to aid the inductees in the discharge of their professional duties to their clients. Earlier in his welcome address, according to a statement, the President of the institute, Dr. K.A.B. Ogungbuyi, said that NITAD would continue to develop and maintain best practices in preparing workers generally for the world of work through skill enhancement programmes capable of making them deliver jobs at hand dutifully and preparing then for future challenges. Ogungbuyi, who noted that knowledge is not static, said that the world of work had changed from what it used to be, as tools of work today had changed due to new innovations and improvement. The president hinted about the African conference to be hosted by NITAD from November 16 to 19, 2013 in Abuja, saying the event would provide an opportunity to tackle youth unemployment through skills acquisition. NITAD is a professional body registered in Nigeria to promote the science and practice of training, learning and facilitating development nationwide

By Adeniyi Adunola