IMPACT OF TRAINING PRACTICES ON DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYEES’ SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE: A STUDY BASED ON EXECUTIVE GRADE EMPLOYEES OF THE PARLIAMENT OF SRI LANKA

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.