1Faculty Member,
2Professor,
*Mrs. T.S. Anuradha, Faculty Member,
**Prof. H.N. Ramesh, Professor,
The Present paper is concentrated on the importance of Training and development practices to the growth and profitability of SMMEs in the study area. Through the literature review, it is identified that most of the SMEs are concentrating on the other parts of the management instead of considering training as an important aspect in developing human resources and thereby achieving objectives of the organization. At the same time, some of the organizations are adopted training programs based on the requirement and skills required to perform the job. Therefore, the present study put an effort to identify the changes in the skills of employees in the pre-training and post-training period, the study conducted by taking a few organizations and the employees of those organizations. And proved the effectiveness of training practices on the skills of employees in the study area.
SMMEs, Training and development, Skills of Employees, MSMEs, Training programmes and Human resource development