Enhancing Productivity through Human Resources Training: Literature Review

This paper presents a discussion on the importance of training in the success of organisations. Considering the permanent and unavoidable changes in the immediate environment of any organisation, training is the only way organisations can learn new skills and practices which can allow the smooth adoption of the new practices to fit the new environments and meet their goals. However, the achievement of success in any training will depend on a number of factors which help the knowledge and skills to perform a specific activity to be acquired (Reid, 1996). De Silva (1997) noted that training is meant to transfer information and knowledge from the source (trainer) to the trainees (employees). It is worth to note that training should be considered along with organisation’s education polices and systems meant for human development. It is therefore, from this point that every organisation should have a well-defined structured training curriculum (Mensah 2018). More importantly, consideration should be on the pedagogy which would be used in the process of training and learning.Employee training is necessary when there is a noted deficiency on the employee’s performance. Training can therefore be termed as an ongoing process to help employees perform a particular work much better from the day they work (Donnelly Dalal-Clayton and Hughes (1998) refer to training as a process designed to improve employees’ skills and competencies to do certain job. Being referred to a process effective training is supposed to follow a well-defined criterion and with the support of right pedagogical