TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYEES IN A PLYWOOD MANUFACTURING PLANT IN MINDANAO

Staff training and development has been identified by various scholars to be very crucial to an organization. Organization are therefore encouraged to train and develop their staff in order to enhance their performance. The product department is among the organizations which provide training and develop their staff to ensure that their staff has the request knowledge and skills, to meet the challenges. While the organization is keeping on training their staff, it is necessary to assess the outcome of these training. The study assessed the training and development process and see whether has improved staff .performance. Data was collected using questionnaires to the selected employees and to the Director of Administration and Human Resource. The data was analyzed using Microsoft word 2003-integrated package on a personal computer and the SPSS software. The result indicated that product department has a training program in place, but it is poorly planned, not systematic and not coordinated. However, all interviewed employees were aware of the existence of training and development program in this organization. However, the training itself had a positive impact on the performance of the staff and the organization. Therefore, it is recommended that, the production department should have a well planned, systematic and coordinated training and development program through the establishment of specific training section.