The Effect Of Training And Development Practice On Cadetperformance: The Case Of Major Generalhaylom Araya Military Academy
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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In this competitive global, army requires military academic officer cadets that have the essential skill and knowledge behavior and attitude in order to accomplish the reason of military academies. Employees’ training and development are one of the system military academy uses to attain the fundamental knowledge, skill, behavior and attitude. The vital aim of this research was to study the effect of training and development practices on cadet performance in case of Major General Hayelom Araya Military Academy. Training plays essential role in the building of competencies of new as well as current employees to achieve their job in an effective way. It, in addition, prepares workers to hold future position in an organization with full capabilities and supports to defeat the deficiencies in any work related area. Training is considered as the sort of investment by the institution to achieve competitive advantage. The research design was descriptive and explanatory or casual type of research where the target population of this research is the military academic officer cadet of selected military academy. A total population 214 from different department, from these 139 respondents was used as sample. A questionnaire was used to gather primary data. Out of the 139 research questionnaire distributed, 139 questionnaires were gathered and analyzed representing 100% response. Military academic officer cadets, supportive staffs, military instructors, civilian instructors and 4 military academy commandants involved in this research. The sampling method for this study was simple stratified random sampling. The primary data was collected using open ended questionnaires, closed ended questionnaires and interviews. Finally the edited data was processed using SPSS and the result was analyzed using inferential statistics specifically mean scored, standard deviation, Pearson correlation and simple regressions. The outcome of person correlation indicates that training and development has positive and significant relationship with job performance in military academies. Also, the outcome of regression analysis shows that training and development has positive and significant effect on job performance in the studied military academies.
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Training, Development, job performance