The effect of employee training on project performance A case of the Girl Child Catch up project of the International Education Exchange

Abstract

The main purpose of the study is to assess the effect of employee training on project performance. The study used the case of the Girl Child Catch up project of International Education Exchange (IEE). Trainer characteristics, training design, managerial/peer support and trainee characteristics were used to predict performance. The objectives of the study were: to examine the effect of trainer characteristics on performance on the girl child catch up project, to assess the effect of managerial/peer support on performance of the girl child catch up project, to examine the effect of trainee characteristics on performance and to assess the relationship between trainer characteristics, training design, managerial/peer support, trainee characteristics and project performance. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques were utilized and census method was used given the small size (50) of the study population. Questionnaires were distributed for data collection, the data coded and analyzed by way of SPSS. The analysis was the descriptive, correlation and regression. Findings indicated that, trainee characteristics, peer support, trainer characteristics and training design account for 10.6% (R squared .106) variance in the performance of the girl child catch up project. Thus, the model was significant in the prediction of performance on the girl child catch up project due to employee training. The study recommends that the girl child catch up project encourage an environment that promotes effective training by giving managerial/peer support needed in the training with aim to improve on the performance of the project.