An Empirical Study on Training and Development Programs Impact on Employees’ Performance

Abstract

The attentive training and development practices cultivate a positive attitude towards the organization by nurturing employee behavior and ultimately contribute to organization's profitability. For individual employee, training and development, improve subject domain and assist in identifying organization goals. The vital construct of the model, psychological empowerment is defined as “enhancement in the individual’s ability in handling things” and has a positive influence over work environment The sample is a convenience sample with 307 employees working in health care units. The associations between the constructs training and development, psychological empowerment and employee performance are evaluated using correlation, regression and indirect mediation effect of psychological empowerment over training and development and employee performance is tested using Hayes mediation macro. Results and conclusions are drawn from the descriptive and inferential analysis.