A study on the effectiveness of training and development practices at liberty shoes limited

To survive and grow in a competitive scenario and with changing with changing technology organsations must he constantly kept up to date through effective training and development programs. Employees training and development is important in industries with rapidly changing technology such as shoes industry. It has become an issue of strategic importance. There is however a limited focus on the evaluation of the effectiveness of training and development practices in an organisation and yet training and development of employees is critical for the survival and growth of any entity. The methodology adopted for this study was convenience sampling. The major findings of the study indicated that training and development practices directly and indirectly benefit both to employees and the organization as a whole. Employees and the organization gain in the form of motivation, knowledge, communication, team work, change in attitude, trust, supervision and morale. Thus factories should keep up their strengths and should alleviate their weaknesses by applying clear and scientific principles regarding human resource training and development.