TRAINING AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN ORGANISATION,"CASE STUDY NEW VISION IN UGANDA

ABSTRACT

The topic of the study was training and employee performance in New Vision Uganda; the

problem was inaccurate reporting of information, which has led to complaints against the

organization. The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between training and

employee performance in New Vision. The objectives of the study were to establish the effects

of training approaches, types of training facilities and frequency of training on the performance

of staff in the New Vision.

The study used descriptive, survey, qualitative and quantitative research design and a sample size

of 124 was used to collect data from New Vision. The study realized that there are approaches

of training with coaching, internship, assigmnent, job instructiol) job rotation as being the highest

training method used in New Vision with 56.5%, types of training facilities with 70.9% of

computer and frequency of training being orientation with 60.4% used in New Vision. The

effects of these approaches were innovativeness, high performance among others.

The recommendations of this study include that there should be a system of giving feedback to

employees. This will enable them to know how they doing as far as achieving the organization's

goals are concerned. The study also discovered that the training methods in new vision are job

instruction, coaching, internship, job rotation, role-playing, case study, lectures, among others.

In conclusion, there are different fmms of training used in New Vision that is on the job and off

the lob training methods. Training has both negative and positive consequences on employees'

perfmmance in New Vision.