The paper assesses the existence and the extent of application of management strategy on staff training and development in Nigerian Polytechnics with a view to determining how far is it from the ideal. The study adopted a population of 10,512 academic staff of total of 80 public and private Polytechnics. A sample size of 300 was randomly chosen and Chi square test provided analysis on the survey data. The paper concludes that there is no defined Management Strategy on Staff Training and Development in the Nigerian polytechnics and therefore the extent of application cannot be measured. The paper recommends that the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) with the Polytechnics to come up with a defined management strategy on staff training and development for all Nigerian Polytechnics
Keywords: Management Strategy, Polytechnics, Staff Training and Development
