A Study on the Impact of on the job training Courses on the Staff Performance (A Case Study)

Nowadays, for development employees to achieve new knowledge and technology, culture building and improvement of staff performance, organizations hold different job-training courses. Therefore, measurement training effectiveness and its impact on employee performance has a lot of importance. The present paper aims at determining the impact of on-the-job training courses on the performance of the employees at the Organization for Martyrs. Affairs. The statistical population consisted of the managers and staff in 5 provinces; they were selected among those employees who had taken part in at least 2 courses since 2010(N=2700). The witness group (n=480) were selected through "improbable accessible sampling" method based on Morgan, Cohen and Krejcie tables. The data collection was done by the used of valid questionnaire and interviews. The Alpha index (=0.95) was used to measure item reliability. This applied study is done on the basis of descriptive survey method. Data analysis is done through application of both descriptive and interpretative statistics. The findings of the study indicated that these courses affect staff performance to some extent, but the level of changes fall below the desired standard. The study questions found their proper answers and a number of optimization strategies were set forward that can be the area of the further studies. Besides that, we mentioned some recommendations for performance improving of the Foundation's Training department that can be a Basis for next researches. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Dr Zafer Bekirogullari.