Impact of Training on Employee Performance at Viva Bahrain

Training has a very crucial role in the organizations of today. All around the world things are changing with a greater pace. In VIVA Bahrain, although existing training helps employees do their current jobs, the benefits of training doesn’t extend throughout an employee’s career and doesn’t help develop that employee for future responsibilities. The research adopts quantitative methodology and solved the research questions with the help of descriptive and inferential statistics. This research will analyze effectiveness of existing training program in VIVA Bahrain and provide recommendations for making changes to this training program according to the latest training standards to meet the vision and mission of VIVA Bahrain. Survey questionnaire was administered to the respondents. The primary data is collected using self-administered questionnaire from 220 respondents and the secondary data includes the semi-structured interview questions are administered from management and other training providing staff. The findings from the study suggest that the training needs assessments are not met. Training programs are not implemented according to desires of employees. Lack of efficient training and attitude of top management toward training. There are also lack of training evaluation practices for employee performance and improvement. Employee agrees that the training has positive and strong impact on performance and improves the skill gaps.