Effect of Training on Employee Performance: Study of Process Operators in an Engineering Company in Galle District

Abstract

Treating the human resource of a company as the most valuable asset in considered as a competitive advantage in the contemporary business environment. Although many organization provide training opportunity for their employees, it is an issue how considerate the management is in addressing the exact training needs of their workforce, which directly affect the Performance of the Employees. Training is a process which able the employees to change their skills, knowledge, attitudes & behavior. Organization capitalized on Training in order to increase their human capital skills & competences. Based on the findings of scientists & HR Specialist, employee training is an important form of company investment that generates additional value & increase a firm’s productivity. Training was employed as a tool for creating competitive advantage for organization. This research objective is aim to investigate the relationship between Training & development & Employee Performance in this organization. As a dependent Variable researcher mention Employee performance & four independent variable are incorporated, Training Design, Roles of Training, Training Policy & Evaluation of Training. The data was collected from Process Operators. In this organization, there are two hundred & six process operators (206). As a sample size researcher has taken from sample randomly sampling method. One hundred & thirty four (134) was used employees from the Process Operators in Engineering Company. The study employs a quantitative approach and it is used the software package for statistical analysis SPSS (Statistical Package for social Sciences) for testing hypotheses, the finding revels that the relationship between Training Design, Roles of Training, Training Policy & Evaluation of Training & Employee Performance is positive & significant. Quality Training was found to be the highest contributor to Employee Performance.