Title:
THE CONTRIBUTION OF EMPLOYEE’S TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS TOWARDS ENHANCING ORGANIZATION PERFORMANCE IN TANZANIA

Authors:
Dr. Raphael Gwahula, PhD. and Willy Innocent ,Tanzania

Abstract:
This study examined the contribution of training and development of employees toward enhancing the institution performance at Mbeya University of Science and Technology as higher education institution. The study used cross-section design to collect data from 234 respondents where questionnaire and interviews were adopted as data collection tools. Results of the findings indicated that, the employees have a great awareness on the fundamental paramount of training and development in higher education institutions toward ensuring better education provision to the students. The issues of increasing knowledge, skills, competences as well as job satisfaction were marked as essential aspects which the higher education institutions should consider effectively in training and development of the workforce. Also, the findings fore mentioned that despite the paramount important of training and developments toward promoting organization performance, the factors such as scarcity of financial resource, mismatch of training which comply with infrastructure of working environment were mentioned as the setback towards ensuring that there is effective training and development in enhancing organization performance. The study recommends that, the institutions should ensure that there is effective strategies for determining training need assessment which comply with the organization vision as well as ensuring that there is sufficient fund which will guarantee the acquiring of the appropriate skills, knowledge and competence to manpower which match with the current technology and the requirement of the institutions.