Training Practices In Select It Companies – An Evaluation

Abstract

Training programmes in the Indian software industry has been distorted to design a smarter workforce and yield the optimised results. The optimum utilisation of employee or human resource is the basic target of any software company and training is a technique to increase software business outcomes. It is required in each de- partment of software companies like marketing, sales, human resource relationship building, production, logis- tics, etc.. Increase in training programme budget and providing effective training has become the strategies of the best software companies to manage, retain and get highest quality output from the employees. In this con- nection, this research paper focused on the evaluation of training practices in select IT companies. Descriptive research method is used to evaluate the training practices. The study based on primary data which is collected from the questionnaire from select IT employees. The collected data is analysed with statistical techniques of Mean and Standard deviation. The study found that there are no significant association between select employ- ee’s education level and their opinion towards the training practices of Training Learning Environment, Skill Application and retention, Participant Engagement and Trainer Effectiveness. There is a significant association between select employee’s education level and their opinion towards the training content and relevance.