Employee Training and Development Practice in Selected Ethiopian Leather Footwear Factories (Evidence from Selected Shoe Factories)
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
To survive and grow organizations must be constantly kept up to date through effective training
and development programs. Employee training and development is especially important in
industries with rapidly changing technology such as shoe industries.
Having this in mind, the study has been conducted in Ethiopia shoe factories (ASSC and
TASSC) to assess employee training and development practices. The methodologies used to
undertake the study were both primary and secondary data collection. Besides to this, the number
of participants for this study was 336 employees.
The finding of the study revealed that the shoe factories weakness in training and development
practice such as with respect to periodic and clear need assessment, selection criteria, training
and development methods, training period’s adequacy and training evaluation. However, training
and development was as such good in relation to trainer’s capabilities, stating in training and
development objectives. Thus, the factories should keep up with their strengths and should
alleviate their weaknesses by applying clear and scientific principles regarding human resource
training and development.
Key words: Training and development
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Training and development