The Effect of Training and Development Practices on Employees’ Performance at SOS Children’s Villages - Ethiopia

Abstract

The study aimed at exploring the effect of training and development practices on employees’ performance at SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia with due emphasis on practices of training needs assessment, training design, delivery style and employee performance. The target populations are employees of the organization working at different Program Locations. From the total population of 835 employees working in the organization, Sample of 270 was drawn and 258 (95.56%) responses were collected. Simple random sampling and Proportionate stratified sampling methods were used to proportionally draw the sample size from each stratum. The primary data was collected through questioner and interview and secondary data was collected from the organization’s website, written documents and reports. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistical techniques such as frequency distributions, percentages, Pearson's correlation matrix and regression to show the relationship between the dependent and the independent variables. Results of this study show that training need analysis has significant effect on employees’ performance whereas delivery style has insignificant effect on employees’ performance. Therefore, the organization is recommended to engage on increasing the qualities of training and development programs with due emphasis on training needs analysis.