PERSPECTIVES AND THE FACTORS INFLUENCING EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ON EMPLOYEES’ PERFORMANCE

Training and development is indispensable strategic tool for enhancing employee performance and organizations keep increasing training budget on yearly basis with believe that it will earn them competitive edge. The main objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of training and development on employees' performance and organization competitive advantage the results show that strong relationship exists between training and development, employees' performance and competitive advantage. Summary of the findings indicates that there is strong relationship between the tested dependent variable and independent construct. However, bank management should not relent in their quest to train their staff to develop new ideas that will keep improving and retaining employee performance.