Abstract:
Human resources are the most valuable assets of any institute over all
other resources. Practices of Training are complementing the process
of conducting Training to enhance the Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes.
Many scholars have been empirically found that there is a strong
positive relationship in between the Training Practices and the Skills
and Knowledge. As per the constitution of the People’s Republic of Sri
Lanka, the Parliament is a unique organization in the country and the
staff of the Parliament could be considered as a ‘Special Group of State
Workers as per the same constitution and the ‘Parliamentary Staff Act
as amended 1994’ and the ‘Powers and Privileges Act, 1999 of the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka’. The
objectives of this study are; to find out the relationship between
Training and Development Practices in the Development of Skills of the
Executive Grade Employees of the Parliament and to find out the
relationship between Training and Development Practices in the
Development of Knowledge of the Executive Grade Employees of the
Parliament. The total Executive Grade Employees of the Parliament
were 53 and only 51 have been responded to the research as the
researcher has taken the total population for the study. It has been
revealed that there was no relationship between Training and
Development Practices in the Development of Skills and the Knowledge
of the Executive Grade Employees. The development of skills and
knowledge could be enhanced by introducing different practices of
Training, other than the practices in use at present, as different
organization may have to use the practices of Training unique to them
to gain the success as found in the literature. Further, it is
recommended to study ‘the impact of Training Practices on motivation
of employees’ for future researchers.
