EMPLOYEE TRAINING PRACTICES AND CHALLENGES AT COMMERCIAL BANK OF ETHIOPIA (EASTERN DISTRICT)

Abstract

Employee training is the very important instrument which is used to update and to make skilled the employee to achieve its objective. It has its own challenges which must be faced to have effective output from the training. Based on this idea, this study is conducted on employee training practice and challenges in CBE Eastern district. It has background which states about training and its related issues. The problems which lead to have study like employee’s weak performance also mention in its statement of the problem. This paper plans to answer research question which concerns on practice, challenge and alignment with strategic plan of employee training. It has an objective of to show the practice of employee training and its challenges. It has significance to the organization, employee and to other researchers. This study has limitation on geography, methodology, variables and other components. Literatures are crucial support for any study. This study also has vital ideas about training, phase of training practice, challenges and ways of training. In addition to this, it has its own research design and methodology. The research design is descriptive research design with mixed research approach. The data was collected from employees with questioner and learning and development department with interview which are both primary data. A population of this study was East Addis district of CBE employees and samples were taken from the front matter employees with convenience sampling. The collected data was analyzed with SPSS percentage which is passed by reliability test. The findings are divided by the variables of the paper and discussed with table descriptions. Practice of employee training with its four phases, challenges rose from employees and the management and the alignment of training program with strategic plan are the pillar points of the analysis. Based on this analysis, the findings are basically showed that there are many issues to be clear out as if the results were neutral which inclines to disagree. This leads to have summaries which general there must be employee’s contribution that lead to have conclusions. Those conclusions are the final outputs of the paper with recommendations.