THE INFLUENCE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN EDUCATION BASED STATE COOPERATION IN KENYA
Abstract
The importance of talent management in Education Based State Corporations in Kenya is ensuring that the corporations are future oriented and that means that they have to have competent skills in place for them to be able to grow and perform in the future that is increasingly competitive and unpredictable, but not to wait for future challenges before attempting to solve them through deliberate talent management programmes. The specific objective of this study was to establish the influence of training and development on organizational performance in Education Based State Corporations. The target population comprised of Senior Managers of the four selected education-based State Corporations; this group has been chosen because talent management and organizational performance decisions are made at these levels. The study population was 180 respondents. The respondents were the Departmental and Divisional Heads, and Human Resource Managers in the Education Based State Corporations. For data analysis, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. The SPSS Version 27 software was used for data analysis for this study descriptive survey was used as the research design. Data was presented in the form of figures, charts and tables. A self-administered questionnaire was used as the main method of collecting data. The findings revealed that R squared was 0.616 and an adjusted R squared of 0.606 showing that training and development explained 61.6% of the variations in organizational performance. The regression coefficient results revealed that training and development had a positive but insignificant influence on organizational performance in education based state corporations in Kenya (β =.020, p=.612>.05).
Key Words: Development, Organizational Performance and Training
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