A study on Training Need Analysis at Canara Bank

Training and development enables employees towards skill development and perform better at workplace. It develops zeal among the employees by introducing them towards the process of continuous learning. What is crucial for employees as well as the organization is that whether the present training program is able to help employees to develop required set of skills. Paper basically focuses on understanding employees opinion about the present training program, extent to which it is leading to skill development for employees to perform efficiently at their workplace. Study is confined to employee working at Canara Bank Bangalore to understand their opinion about present training practices followed and areas in which company can inculcate additional practices to enhance training and development practice followed in the company. Primary and secondary data was used for the study, where primary data was collected through structured questionnaire and secondary data through journals, magazines, books, internet etc. the data was analyzed using the statistical software SPSS16, excel and MS word, the statistical tool used is fishers exact test. study basically intended to understand employees opinion about training programs held in the organization and scope for updating of training program. The results shows that there is no significant association between training necessary in improving performance and the satisfaction towards training program at the significance 0.005 level. This shows that the training program is not effective and that there is no significant association between type of training program provided and satisfaction gained through the training program at the significance of 0.005 level. This shows that the kind of training provided is not much effective and right kind of training has not been identified.