Abstract:
Employees are major assets of any organization. The active role they play towards a company’s
success cannot be underestimated. As a result, equipping these unique assets through effective
training becomes imperative in order to maximize the job performance. The objective of the
study was to assess the actual training practice of the public organizations and its effect in
performance of employees in some selected public organizations of Kaffa zone. Besides this the
study revealed the effect of training on employee performance in a comparative manner by
categorizing the organizations based on the level of training they provide to their employees. The
research is a case study in the `form of cross sectional design in which primary data will be
collected across a study population. The target population of the study was 488 public
organization employees having the educational level of diploma and above from Zonal and
Woredas of the organizations. The total sample size of 220 employees was taken, of which 118
sample from the organizations better in providing training and the remaining 102 sample from
the organizations poor in providing training. The sampling techniques used were stratified
sampling proportionate and simple random sampling as it enables to take sufficient sample from
each strata. The study used questionnaire and interview as a tool to gather the data. Data
analysis was done using both descriptive and inferential. Frequency, percentage, mean and
standard deviation was investigated from descriptive part: correlation particularly pearson
correlation, ANOVA and regression analysis was carried out to investigate the relationship and
effect between the study variables. The findings showed that training has strong positive
correlation with employee performance, training has moderate correlation with job satisfaction
and low positive correlation with employee motivation in public organizations of Kaffa zone. In
conclusion training affects employee performance positively in some selected public
organizations of Kaffa zone.
