EFFECT OF TRAINING ON EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF MUGHER CEMENT FACTORY

Abstract

The main objective of this research was to assess how effective Mugher Cement Factory human resource training programs are in improving employee’s performance for the last three years. Descriptive research design was employed in order to answer the research questions. Structured questionnaires were distributed to employees and management selected through employing purposive sampling technique. A group of top management and training and development team staff were interviewed and documents were tabulated, analyzed and interpreted using frequency count and percentage. The researcher tried to find out: the integration between human resource training plan and the strategic plan, how often training programs are organized, observe whether training programs are organized based on training needs assessment and how are such needs assessed, investigate to what extent training program conducted have contributed on employees performance and assess to what extent employees are satisfied with the training programs provided. Hence, the study found out that the integration between Training plan and Strategic plan was rated as intermediate, there was lack of performing training needs assessment, training program evaluation and conducting training programs in an organized manner, there was weak training program organization, the training provided was not adequately increasing employees performance and employees’ satisfaction from the training they attended was low. Therefore, the researcher recommended that as training plan and strategic plan should strongly integrated, the training program provided to the employees be supposed to organized properly, the training needs assessment and evaluation should be conducting in all sub processes and teams and trained employees should motivated and promoted based on training and competencies in order to increase employees performance.