Practices and challenges of employees on-job training and development in education offices of kaffa zone

Abstract

Now days, organizations operate in a complex and changing environment that greatly influences their growth and expansion. To cope up with this changing environment they need to develop their human resources. This is because the survival and growth of any organization depends on the quality of human resources. Having this is mind this study was conducted to assess practices and challenges of HRTD in the selected education offices of Kaffa zone, SNNPR State, Ethiopia. The study use both primary and secondary data sources. Descriptive survey was employed taking a sample of 69 respondents selected through census sampling technique to collect data through questionnaire. Data were analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics based on SPSS 20 and qualitative techniques used to take the story from the participant viewpoint while quantitative techniques used for summarizing large amount of data and reaching generalization based on statistical estimation. The finding of the study showed that the employees have good awareness towards HRTD concepts and they were able to relate those concepts with HRTD. However, the results indicates the education offices were not in a good track in the process of HR training and development through need assessing, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The finding also indicated that the education offices were not in position to doing need analysis and confronted with the variety of challenges in the practices of HRTD. Generally, based on the findings the education offices didn`t have good HRTD system. To minimize problems in the practice of HRTD first and foremost, in the education offices, HR should get due attention since it is an engine for other resources. To the effective success of HRD, proper need assessment and good planning is the ultimate backbone of the program. Moreover, to overcome the challenges of HRTD practice there is a need for skilled human and financial resources and providing the necessary technical and interpersonal support to make HRTD process more sustainable.