Pilot Test for Reliability and Validity of the Study on Exploring Factors of Training Effectiveness for it Competency among the Employees of Public Sector Banks

IT competency of the banking professionals should be adjusted to the progressions inside the bank with the goal that operational capacity of banks is enhanced in the age of the advanced shrewd machine. IT competence is a knowledge stack of all the related IT dataset, and to understand that how and what extent IT influences a major part of an individual’s job part or duty that associates with execution at work. IT competency can be estimated against the standardized guidelines and can be enhanced through proper training programme and advancement. The levels of Information Technology (IT) competencies among the working professionals of public sector banks is one of the very significant issue as it can help to design the framework of the training for them. The fundamental aim of this study is to empirically and systematically investigate how Information Technology competencies can be acquired by the bank professionals and which factors are quite significant to assist the incorporation of IT training to augment the IT competencies in the working professionals.

The survey was assessed for a number of reliability and validity measures. Sampled respondents for this pilot test (N=60) were working professionals of the public sector banks of Udaipur district of Rajasthan. Reliability results derived from the statistical analysis over the questionnaire designed for the pilot test showed that the tool is quite reliable and valid in many of the psychometric categories. Suggestions to improve the reliability, content validity, and to make the tool more usable are incorporated.