Impact Of Trainings Programs On Performance Of The Health Sector Personnels: A Case Of Kondoa District Hospital

ABSTRACT

This study is aimed at evaluating the Impact of Trainings Programs on Performance of the Health Sector Personnel at Kondoa District Hospital as a case study. The specific objectives for this study were to examine the training programs given to the employees, to determine the increase in level of Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes of the employees, to what extent employees are transferring their Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes to work output and lastly to determine the relationship between human resource training and organizational performance.

Both primary and secondary data were used in this study. In primary data questionnaire and interview were used and in secondary source relevant documents has been reviewed. A total of 60 respondents were interviewed, including key informants representing their departments in the hospital. Collected data were analyzed by a computer program Statistical Package for Social Scientist (SPSS) Version 20. In this analysis, data were cross-tabulated to produce percentages and frequencies of responses on performance variable. The findings has indicated clearly that training has direct impacts on the increase level of KSA, which in return have influence on the employee‟s performance as well as organizational performance.

Though training has positive impacts on performance, still there is low investment in training and development programs due to inadequate budget allocation for trainings. Consequently the study recommends that, Government of Tanzania should allocate enough funds for training programs for both short courses and long courses