THE EFFECT OF TRAINING ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF NATIVITY GIRLS' CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND LIDETA CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL SCHOOL

Abstract

The general objective of the study was examining the effect of training on organizational performance in the case of Nativity Girls' Catholic School and Lideta Catholic Cathedral School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The sample size for the study was 104 employees of Nativity Girls' Catholic School and Lideta Catholic Cathedral School, Addis Ababa. This study employed explanatory and descriptive research design. The researcher used census which is the procedure of selecting all employees hence no sampling method is used on this research .The primary data for this study was collected through questionnaires. Data analysis was done by using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). The study used descriptive and inferential statistics to analyze the data. The study was conducted by modeling the relationship between organizational performance and the following independent factors: training need assessment, training objective, training design, training implementation and training evaluation. The researcher identified the major determinants of organizational performance in Nativity Girls' Catholic School and Lideta Catholic Cathedral School, Addis Ababa. The analysis found out that training objective, training design, training implementation and training evaluation are statistically significant with organizational performance. The R square result is .803 which means 80.3 % of variables which directly and indirectly affect organizational performance in Nativity Girls' Catholic School and Lideta Catholic Cathedral School is assessed and evaluated in this research paper. The study came out with the following recommendation for rescuing the problem: the responsible bodies should give a chance for employees to participate in the designing and development of the organization training as it helps the organization to easily understand the need and want of employees regarding the training, strongest and positive training parameters in the organizations is its evaluation, so to enhance evaluation; feedbacks from employees on training should be collected before and after training and the organizations should engage in increasing the qualities and quantities of the training program so as to increase their employees ‘performance and organizations ‘performance