Abstract: The study examines up-skilling models as measures for curtailing under-performance in selected moneydeposit banks in southwest Nigeria. Specifically, professional training, staff development programmes, motivationaleffect on productivity and employee job satisfaction and other measures that can curtail under-performance by staffof money deposit banks in southwest Nigeria are looked into in this study. This study employs descriptive researchdesign of ex-post factor. The findings revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between up-skilling measures and under-performance of staff in the selected deposit money banks in the study. The studyconcludes that up-skilling measures has a strong positive and significant influence on under-performance in thedeposit money banks in Nigeria. The study therefore recommends that the banks should initiate and implementcareer development policies towards effective succession planning which would sustain the organization in the long-run. Management should exhaust all internal talent before considering external talent especially when makingpromotion decision as this can significantly impact the overall of development achievement. Hence, the studyrecommends that management of the studied organizations should focus on goals, considered to be great place towork by employees, management should also involve employees in goal setting while also having a focusedapproach to achieving the same. Finally, money deposit banks should place emphasis on development achievementbased reward systems to improve individual employee productivity.

Key Words: up-skilling models, under-performance, productivity, job satisfaction