IT Employees Training Methods and Job Performance - An Empirical Investigation

Abstract

With the growing body of research in the field of human resource functions this study intends to find the impact of employee’s training methods towards their job performance. The data were gathered from 576 employees working in IT companies at Bangalore. The middle level employees were chosen as the samples. The PLS based approach is used to test the proposed hypotheses. The training methods is categorized in two forms as On-the Job training (OJT) and specialized training and its influence towards the job performance is assessed. Based the research framework formulated the findings of the study claimed that both the training methods showed a positive influence towards the employee’s job performance. Specifically, the specialize training shows greater impact on performance of the employees than that of other training methods. Further the study also suggests managerial implications by helping the management in realizing the importance of specialized training and makes them to formulate plans in identifying the training methods that suits to the individual employee capabilities