ABSTRACT

One of the major ways, organizations invest in their work force for greater returns today and even in employees.  Training is like sharpening of an existing skill in order to reflect the trends in technology and other social cultural environment of an organization.  Productivity is the goal of today competitive business.  The major objective of training and development is to increase the efficiency of the employees with the resulting increase in corporate productivity.  Human resources training and development are necessary for both employees morale and the organization can enhance the value of these assets by investing time and money for their improvement.

In view of the above, the researcher recommends that Innoson Industry Plc, should take the training of their staff seriously b making sure that uniformity of standard is maintained in all arms of the organization.  There should be an accepted adequate management for assessing the employees performance.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Approval pagei

Dedicationii

Acknowledgementiii

Abstractiv

Table of contentsvii

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION1

1.1Background of the study1

1.2Statement of the problem8

1.3Purpose of the study8

1.4Significant of the study10

1.5Scope of the study10

1.6Research questions11

1.7Definition of terms12

CHAPTER TWO

2.0Literature Review13

2.1Introduction13

2.2Training is designed to15

2.3Importance of training and development17

2.4Understanding training and development needs20

2.5Discovering training and development needs20

2.6Training evaluation 28

2.7Review of other related literature30

2.8Summary of reviewed literature28

CHAPTER THREE

3.0Methodology40

3.1Research design40

3.2Areas of study41

3.3Population of the study41

3.4Sample size and sample procedure41

3.5Sample procedure42

3.6Instrument for data collection43

3.7Validation of the research instrument43

3.8Reliability of the instrument43

3.9Method of administering of research instrument44

3.10Method of data analysis44

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0Presentation of data analysis46

4.1Summary of findings60

CHAPTER FIVE

Findings, Implications, Recommendations and Conclusion63

5.1Implications of result64

5.2Recommendations64

5.3Conclusions67

Reference71

Appendix73

Questionnaire