PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES OF TRAINING POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AT EQUATORIAL BUSSINESS GROUP (EBG)

Abstract

In today’s active environment the demand for professional and highly skillful workforce are necessary for every organization to perform well in this environment. The employees need to be trained and the development of an employee to be highly skilled is essential. To survive and grow organizations must be persistently keep up to date through effective training programs. The purpose of this study to find out how the training policy being implemented and what kind of challenges the organization faced on the road of implementation. The study adopted the survey research method. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were applied; the quantitative technique involved a questionnaire survey of Equatorial Business Group (EBG) officials. A questionnaire will distribute among the employees from different departments. A total of 70 questionnaires will distribute among the organization and 53 of them have been returned by the respondents. The completed questionnaire will form the foundation of this research. Whilst the qualitative technique involved an interview with Assistant Human Resource Manager and senior human resource department officer at EBG head office. The study exposed that Equatorial EBG has a training policy. It further revealed that the policy is sufficient in content and the awareness of the training policy among the EBG officials was high. It was also discovered that the current training practices, processes, procedures and implementation at EBG were not at variance with the provisions of the policy and best practices of training but that the budgetary allocation for training was the key challenge in implementing the training policy at EBG.