Impact of Training and Development on Innovation Capability

Today, entire world became a global network, treated as a global economy that drives organizations to be competitive. Thus, Organizations tend to be more concern on innovations and establish an innovative culture to be unique and gain competitive advantage. In this process, Training and Development acts a critical role that accelerates employees thinking ability and their behavior. This study investigated the impact of training and development on innovation capability of employees. The study context was an Apparel organization in Sri Lanka. The primary purpose of this study to fill the literature gap while giving stimuli to Sri Lankan organizations towards to be innovative. To measure effectiveness of training and development, researcher used the model developed by Wise and Ezell (2003) and innovation capability was measured by the model developed by Dadfar et al. (2013). Findings of the study reveals that organizational effective training and development positively affects to boost innovation capability of organization. In addition, the study proposed how an organization inculcate an innovative culture within by improving learning, productive behavior and personal/group achievements.