The Practices And Challenges Of Human Resource Training And Development: The Case Of Gurage Zone Tvet Institutes In South Nation Nationalities And People Regional State

Abstract

The study was assessed the practices and challenges of human resource training and development in TVET institutes of Guraghe zone in South Nation Nationalities and People Regional State. Basic questions of the study are: To what extent do the TVET institutes communicate its human resource training and development policy and strategic planning to employees, How does the TVET institutes conduct human resource training and development need, evaluation and impact assessment, &What are the major challenges the TVET institutes face in the implementation of human resource training and development. The basic objective is to investigate the major practices and challenges human resource training and development and to recommend possible solutions. In order to address the objective of the study descriptive survey type of research used; and both quantitative and qualitative research approach. The study used both primary and secondary source of data. The primary sources of data Collected using a survey questionnaire, and interviews and the secondary sources of data are different documents analysis. The sample size consists of 103 trainers and 49 administrative staff, 4 deans and 4 human resource development core process coordinators of the college. Simple random, purposive and availability sampling techniques were used. The data was analyzed via descriptive statistics frequency and percentage and presented in the form of graph and tables. The major finding reveals that the TVET institutes has its own human resource training and development policy, but not communicated to employees; it didn’t conduct human resource training and development needs assessment; selection of trainees was conducted by a human resource department in a fair manner; employed both on-the-job and off-the-job training methods; it didn’t undertake post training evaluation; it has no sufficient training facilities and qualified instructors; didn’t give practical training relevant to the actual job and training contents are not designed based on needs of trainees. On the base of the finding the TVET institutes not working to up to the expected to provide practical training to its employees that enable to cope up with changing situation and this affects the achievement of the goals and objectives of the organization. Hence, to overcome these challenges the college should communicate the policy to employees, conduct periodic training needs assessment, should furnish the necessary training facilities, conduct post training evaluation, improve the capacity of employees in all the training and development process.