The Effect of Training on Employee Performance in Some Selected Public Organizations, Kaffa Zone.

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.