Research Proposal: Employee Training

Abstract

Acquisition of the right skills is critical for an employee if at all they are to achieve optimal outcome during their interaction with roles and responsibilities in work environment. Training is one such approach that will facilitate acquisition of skills. Organizations which are keen to help employees to meet set objectives do not hesitate to provide a platform that will give employees an opportunity to advance their skill set. The paper will delve into understanding how UNISOA training program has been instrumental to offer employees the right skills towards boosting their performance, how the training improves the senior managers ability to guide other staff members and how training is a motivating factor.

Introduction

Employee training comes in handy for any organization to equip staff with skills and knowledge that go a long way in optimizing their performance. Therefore, there is need to come up with an effective training program that would ensure our employees have the right skills that align to their job expectations. The approach gives the organization competitive advantage in the sense that, the employees would apply the acquired knowledge to meet the institution’s objectives. In any case, organizations operate in an ever-changing environment, and as such, employee’s skill set and knowledge may become obsolete over time. The aspect of giving employees the right skills affords them job satisfaction since they rest assured that they meet their employer’s target and the firm cares about staff career growth.

Training shapes how employees think since it makes them feel they have a future with the organization.

Research objective:

The objective of the study is to establish the role of employee training in UNSOA plays towards achieving employee motivation, positive leadership traits, and enhancement of employee performance. UNISOA realizes that its ability to achieve set goals and objectives depends on how well the employees are equipped with right skills and knowledge. Since the operating environment is always changing the training program should be timely and continuous to reflect the employee needs. Therefore, employee training is critical to improving employee performance. The human resource management of the UN is keen to establish the effectiveness of training programs on employee performance. The study would also be instrumental to other bodies such as the international civil servants who wish to use the UN’s platform to engage employees in training. Also, other researchers will have the opportunity to discover the relevance of United Nations operating system to different job training scenarios.

Research question

What role does employee training at UNISOA play in improving their performance?

Hypothesis

Employee training is a vital component that determines their output.

Literature review

The UNISOA workforce output capabilities depend on how well they own the right skills regarding the task before them. Therefore, training the organization’s employees is one way to prepare them to deliver on its expectations. Research identifies training as one effective way of motivating and cultivating commitment from their employees since the approach gives them the right knowledge to deal with work-related challenges. The staff is well placed to perform over and above the organizations, expectations because they know the organizations place their interests first. The approach will go a long way in boosting the UNISOAs productivity since employees would wish to put their best foot forward to see the organization succeed as their future depends on the same. The staff is in a position to develop the sense of identity with the firm, and as such, they would work hard to ensure the firm achieves its objectives (Angela, 2014). Acquisition of new knowledge would be instrumental in the organization towards attaining value innovation since the approach facilitates innovativeness, and in the event, ensure competitive advantage.

Employee training programs play a key role in workforce retention, and creativity on the part of employees. Training employees give them the impetus to want to work with the organization for as long as possible. Employees would feel at home, and as such, they would not see the need to move to a new firm. Employee turnover has a negative effect on the organization would lose talent to rivals. Such aspect would lead to loss of competitive advantage. Senior employees who are well versed with the right skills would delve into the creation of collaborative approach where they would help staff in lower levels to achieve their responsibilities in a better and efficient manner (Angela, 2014). Effective training programs help UNISOA employees to save time in all their approaches.

Method

Sample and sampling design

The sample size will encompass 114 staff members working for United Nations Support Office for The African Union Mission in Somali. The participants would be selected randomly depending on ease of accessibility.

Sampling design

The sample size of the study would engage 114 officials working with UNSOA as per the data from human resource department. Stratified random sampling would be used to sample target population since it allows for adequate comparison between groups (Angela, 2014).   The sample size was representative in the sense that it utilized 30 percent of the 114 employees as per the requirements of any sample size below 1000. The research engaged employees in three categories, that is, top and middle-level management, and staff members not operating on management level

Data Collection methods

A questionnaire would be used to collect data where individuals will be given time to interact with the same and collection of the filled questionnaires done later. All participants would be exposed to the same questions to ensure standard information from the respondents. The questionnaires would seek to get the participants demographics, establishing the relationship between staff training and employee engagement, define the relationship between training and staff and motivation and the relationship between employee training and job satisfaction.

Research Design

.     The best method to collect original data for large sample population is the survey research method. Employee performance in the study dependent variable and employee training as the independent variable.  The research selected independent variables and established the relationship with other variables in the working environment (Angela, 2014). The approach would be critical in the collection of opinions from samples in their natural environment

Research procedure

A pre-test process would be done on the questionnaire to detect any weaknesses regarding the research design. The pre-test procedure will be carried out on five respondents who were excluded from the final survey to avoid survey.

Data Analysis

The SSPS would be used as the appropriate statistical method for data analysis. The analysis took shape through establishing of variance, frequencies and means and bivariate analysis. The approach would be critical to establish a relationship between variables.

Conclusion

The research would establish whether employee training in UNISOA would facilitate employee engagement by determining whether staff at all levels would be in a position to take new tasks after training. Further, the research would seek to determine whether top management employees would help employees in the lower level of employment to accomplish their tasks after they had training. Innovation and performance would also be subject to analysis to understand how training would affect the same. Last and not the least, the research would seek to establish whether employee’s morale would be high after training. The research would seek to see whether the hypothesis would test positive, and in any case, if the research problem would be answered.

References

Angela, G. (2014). EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF UNITED NATIONS SUPPORT OFFICE FOR THE AFRICAN UNION MISSION IN SOMALIA.