Employees motives towards participation in the training program: A cluster analysis

Training has become an important route to prepare the employees for the future market. For a firm, training is not a goal in itself but is subject to the primary activity to prepare staff for production and services activities. The rapid change in the business environment has posed many challenges before employees. To meet the competition in the present market, there is great pressure of work under a very complex situation. It is a responsibility of the management to make necessary changes at the workplace as per the requirement of the job. At the same time it have become essential for the employees also to keep themselves upto date in order to remain competitive. However employees take up the training program with different motives. In a survey of 148 employees working in some service organisation, it was indicated that employees take up the training program of the company with the motives like Competency improvement motives, Career enhancement motives, Security motives, Knowledge and interpersonal skill motives, Transformational motives, Learning motives, Waste reduction motives, Organisational development motives, Promotional motives, Employability motives, and Pacing with technology motives. Further one way ANOVA revels no significant different exists in the different motives across the gender categories of respondents. Cluster analysis indicates that largest cluster of the employees have their first motive of training to enhance their competency, knowledge and interpersonal skill. Against this background, different aspects of training and employees motives of training have been discussed in this paper