IMPACT OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE

Abstract

Employees are the major assets of any organization. Every organization needs well trained employees to perform the activities effectively and efficiently. The success of the organizations depends on employee performance.Training and development are the crucial factors of enlightening the employee performance in most organizations. The purpose of this study is to find out the awareness about training programmes conducted in the organization, impact of training and development programmes on employee performance and employees satisfaction towards training programmes. The responses were taken from 301 employees who are working in the manufacturing units using a structured questionnaire by census method. The research approach adopted for the study conforms to descriptive research.The questionnaire contains 24 statements regarding training programmes which is grouped into five factors such as professional competencies, career growth and opportunities, training methods and evaluation, management support, training design using rotated component matrix (factor analysis). By using the factor analysis result, a training and development framework has been developed. From multiple regression result, it is found that professional competencies, career growth and opportunities, training methods and evaluation factors have an impact on employee performance. Training design and management support are the two factors that have little bearing on employee performance. It is suggested that the organization enhance its support for training programmes and also concentrate on their selection of training design.