Training and Development: A Review of its Outcome to Productivity in the Tea Industry in Sri Lanka

Training and development is found to be an important factor across industries today. The main resource in particular being “Human resource” optimizing the value created through, it has a direct impact on an industries performance. Training andamp; development helps to increase the knowledge of the employees thus increasing the productivity of an employee. Though the return on investment on Training andamp; development cannot be specifically assessed, it is known to increase the output on employees. The tea industry in Sri Lanka employees around 2 million people who directly or indirectly are dependent on the industry. The tea industry earnes around 1.3 billion USD annually as foreign exchange. Therefore it’s a significant as well as an important area in the Sri Lankan economy (Janaka, Nishan, Saman, IPs) Lack of productivity has turn out to be a stumbling block for the development on the industry. Therefore, Training andamp; development have become a vital factor to increase the productivity of the industry. Therefore, this paper investigates Training andamp; development and its impact to the productivity of the employees in the industry.