Employee Training And Organization Productivity In Equity Bank-Ongata Rongai Kenya.

ABSTRACT

This is a study on employee training and its role on organization productivity at Equity Bank,

Nairobi, Kenya. The study seeks to bring out the importance of employee training in

organization productivity. Many organizations in the business world today choose to ignore or

are not aware on the importance of employee training in enhancing employee productivity.

It seeks to determine the objectives of the study thus bringing out the forms of employee training

used at Equity Bank, effects of these forms of development not only on the productivity of

employees but on the organization as a whole and challenges experienced when carrying out

employee training programs.

The targeted population is 100 and the sample size of the study is 80 respondents in which 48

were men and 32 were female.

The research used both qualitative and quantitative research design to carry out the study.

Qualitative design was used to collect factual information and quantitative design was used to

collect numerical facts of the study. The research entailed both primary and secondary forms of

data. The instruments used to collect this data were mainly questionnaire and interviews.

Findings on the forms of employee training used at Equity Bank showed, team building, formal

education, apprenticeship, job rotation and job rotation as some of the form of employee training

used.

Results from the study on the effects of employee training showed improved production, better

performance, financial benefits and promotions as some of the effects employee training.

Findings on the challenges experienced by Equity Bank in employee training showed work

overload, lack of expertise, lack of cooperation, time consuming and expensive as challenges

experienced.

From the findings of the study, on the forms of employee training at Equity Bank showed were

mentoring and formal education were the most common forms used. The most common effects

of employee development were improved production and performance enhancement. And for the

challenges, expensiveness of the programs and lack of cooperation are the most common

challenges experience by Equity Baril