A Project Report On: "Effectiveness of Employability Training Workshop"
A Project Report On: "Effectiveness of Employability Training Workshop"
A Project Report On: "Effectiveness of Employability Training Workshop"
Project Report on
“Effectiveness of Employability Training Workshop”
WITH REFERENCE TO
“Department of Management Studies”
“Kumaun University, Bhimtal”
SUBMITTED TO
Department of Management Studies, Bhimtal
Submitted by
Joshi Mohit Nandkishor
Roll No- 1664610009
This Research work has not been submitted for the award of any other
Degree, Diploma, Fellowship or other similar title at Kumaun University or
any other University.
Date: -
This Endeavour would not have been possible without help of the
following individuals. Every person we mention plays a piece of the puzzle to
make picture complete, some pieces are bigger than others, but without any
one piece, the picture would not be complete.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PARTICULARS PAGE
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1-5
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
1.7
2.
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
3.
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
4. ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION
5. FINDINGS, SUGGESTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ANNEXURE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Researcher has carried out winter project in his Management Institute
“Department of Management Studies, Kumaun University, Bhimtal Campus”.
On the topic “Effectiveness of Employability Training in DMS”, which is the
subject covered under the main project, apart from this researcher also
focused on identifying training needs of junior batches who are supposed to
enter in final year and grooming themselves for facing corporate world, hence
researcher emphasized on exploring their training requirements for coming
academic year.
A full time MBA program no doubt provides every student with the opportunity to
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Chapter
Introduction
Introduction
learn new skills and jump right into a new career. But to make the most successful
transition into the new career, students need opportunities to practice the theoretical
knowledge they learn in the classroom and acquire additional skills from various
training programs. Solid experiential learning is an imperative component of an MBA
education. The success story of any MBA professional depends on number of real life
hands on learning experience through various trainings and classroom lectures but
these trainings and lectures should be effective enough to develop leadership potential
and general business acumen. Effectiveness of any trainings seemed to be fruitful only
if students try to infuse real world experience during and after training sessions.
Life is all about working together, certain skill sets like teamwork, communications,
critical thinking and ethical decision making cannot be taught during regular class
lectures. Thus Group works and projects in MBA classes ensure that the students
communicate with each other their opinions, views and diverse perspectives to bring
out the best solution, this process can also be termed as training, and these types of
training only requires active participation from students and willingness to learn new
things.
There are three elements of training – purpose, place and time. Training without a
purpose is useless because nothing would be achieved out of it. The purpose must be
identified carefully and now there are a large number of techniques, available for
establishing training needs. Place would decide the choice of training method and also
influence its effectiveness. The next element is the time. Training must be provided at
the right time. A late training would provide outdated knowledge. The timing has also
to be specified in physical terms, i.e. which month/week of the year and at what time
of the day. This can have a lot of ramifications in terms of the cost of training and its
ultimate efficacy in achieving the desired results. The purpose of training is to bring
about improvement in the performance of the human resources. It includes the
learning of such techniques as are required for the intelligence performance of definite
tasks. It also comprehends the ability to think clearly about problems and its
responsibilities and to exercise sound judgment in making decisions affecting the
work. Lastly, it includes those mental attitudes and habits, which are covered under
the general term ‘morale’.
Training Effectiveness
Training effectiveness is the degree to which trainees are able to learn and apply the
knowledge and skills acquired during the programme. The attitudes, interests, values
and expectations of the trainees and the training environment influence it. A training
programme is likely to be more effective when the trainees are involved actively.
Contents of training programme, and the ability of trainers also determine training
effectiveness to a certain extent.
(ii) Learning.
The extent to which the trainees have gained the desired knowledge and skills
during the training period is a useful basis of evaluating training effectiveness.
(iii) Behavior.
Improvement in the job behavior of the trainees reflects the manner and
extent, to which, the learning has been put to practice.
(iv) Results.
Productivity improvement, quality improvement, cost reduction, accident reduction,
reduction in labor turnover and absenteeism are the outcomes of training which can be
used for evaluating effectiveness.
Training is a human phenomenon. So, there is a large variation in its results. The
results of training can show themselves in both long-run as well as short-run. There
can be varying effect of training on the trainees. So, post-training becomes a very
tedious exercise for the trainers. Any mistake can lead to wrongful conclusions and
even hamper the training process in future.
(i) Intermediate
This phase of evaluation is conducted after some time period has elapsed after the
training. During this period, the trainees would have put the skills learnt during
training into practice. This evaluation shows whether the knowledge, skill and
behavior, which have been learned during the training, is being put into use on the
job. In other words, the evaluation seeks to find whether the change in behavior, skills
and attitude as a result of the training can be identified.
This evaluation is determines the value of the training delivered and assesses:
Training has to be provided, according to skills desired and the current skill levels. It
is difficult to draw generalizations of the objectives of training; still they can be stated
as under:
1. To increase the knowledge of students along with skills to implement that
knowledge.
2. To systematically impart new skills to students so that they learn quickly.
3. To improve the overall performance of the students.
4. To prepare students for higher jobs by developing advanced skills in them.
Need of Study
The Development of any professional student depends on the quality of education and
the level of expertise he/she grabs apart from theoretical context. Training adds stars
to the quality of education imparted by college which helps in enhancing skill set, also
to showcase his/her quality education in front of others and here emerge the scope of
my project that how much student grabbed from external trainer and what all concerns
students expects to grab from entire external environment.
The study is conducted to study and analyze effectiveness of Employability
Training @ DMS.
This study is conducted with an intend to understand that what students
expects, as a part of MBA course from external training workshops conducted
by well experienced corporate and institutional Trainers.
By looking it one can design a very useful and more impactful training
module.
Future Scope
This study can be conducted further in various MBA colleges.
Website designed for conducting survey regarding the project is open to all,
interested students can take advantage of online data collection without any
hassle.
As training needs are not constant hence this project can be enhanced in
coming time period.
The format of Questionnaire in the survey, data collected, analysis made,
results obtained can be used as secondary data to carry out similar kinds of
projects in other colleges
Raymond Noe and Neal Schmitt (1986) studied influence of trainee attitudes on
training effectiveness. They stated that the influences of trainees’ characteristics on
training effectiveness have focused on the level of ability necessary to learn program
content. Motivational and environmental influences of training effectiveness have
received little attention. This analysis integrates important motivational and
situational factors from organizational behavior theory and research into a model
which describes how trainees' attributes and attitudes may influence the effectiveness
of training.
Bhatti & Kaur (2010) studied the role individual and training design factors on
training transfer. This paper presented the theoretical model of training transfer in
which they identified many factors that affect the training effectiveness. These factors
are: transfer design, perceive content validity, performance self-efficacy, evaluation of
training and training transfer motivation. Authors concluded that there is a significant
correlation between content validity and motivation to training transfer. They also
concluded that motivation to transfer is one of the fundamental components of
training transfer course; without this motivation it will be difficult to transfer the
training successfully.
Hussain (2011) carried out an empirical study of the relationship between motivation
to transfer and transfer of training on job. The proposed model of this paper revolved
around the factors that influenced and contributes to the training effectiveness. The
purpose of this paper is to highlight the effect of motivation to transfer on training
effectiveness. The researcher has identified the factors at three levels i. e individual,
training and organizational, affecting the training transfer. This paper highlighted that
transfer of training can be maximized through increasing motivation and enthusiasm
in trainees to apply their knowledge and skill at their workplace. He also observed
that transfer of training to workplace had been continuous problem for organizations
that pursues maximization of training usefulness. He also suggested that training can
only be effective once trainee apply on job, the knowledge, skills and abilities which
he has acquired during a training program.
Chimote, Niraj Kishore (2012), the main purpose of this study is to find out how a
training programme can be evaluated from the perspective of trainee employees to test its
effectiveness. The literature review highlighted that the effectiveness of a training
programme can be fairly measured by comparing the pre-training expectations and
knowledge of trainees with their post-training experience. This study examines the
effectiveness of a training programme offered to 108 trainees of a leading private sector
bank. The study intended to test whether the efficacy gap is influenced by the age, gender
and education of the trainees. The chi-squared test revealed that the demographic
variables are independent of the efficacy gap. A paired sample t-test was conducted and it
has been concluded that the trainees did not find the programme effective. The factor
analysis indicates that the grouping of the variables into factors fairly matches with the
four levels of Kirkpatrick’s model of training evaluation with certain exceptions. Finally,
a multiple regression analysis was conducted which revealed that the factors extracted in
factor analysis are significant in explaining training effectiveness.
Yadapadithaya (2001) studied the current practices of evaluating training and
Development programmes in the Indian corporate includes High pressure for
increased quality, innovation, and productivity acts as a major driving force for the
Indian corporate training and development programmes, Most of the key result areas
of training and development function are related to the measurement and evaluation of
training effectiveness. Nearly 6 per cent of the private sector, 81 per cent of the public
sector, and all the MNCs evaluate the effectiveness of training in one way or the other.
The major purpose of evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of the various
components of a training and development programme. Organizations rely mostly on
the participants’ reactions to monitor the effectiveness of training. An overwhelming
majority of the organizations use “questionnaires” as an instrument to gather relevant
data for evaluation. In most of the cases, evaluation was done immediately after the
training. Majority of private and public sector organizations use one –shot programme
design and more than half of the MNCs also use single group, pre-test and post-test
design for evaluating the effectiveness of training and development programmes.
Absence of transfer of learning from the place of training to workplace has been a
major perceived deficiency of the corporate training and development system. Indian
Corporate sector is currently facing the challenge of designing and developing more
valid, reliable and operational measures to evaluate the effectiveness of training and
development.
Kuldeep Sing (2000) has selected 84 organization from business representing all the
major domestic industries questionnaire has developed by Huselid (1993) are used to
study training. The objectives of the study are to examine the relationship between
training and organizational performance which shows that Indian organizations are still
not convinced of the fact that investments in human resources can result in higher
performance.
Alphonsa V.K. (2000) has conducted training climate survey in a large private hospital in
Hyderabad. 50 supervisors from different departments of the hospitals randomly selected
for the study. The researcher used training – climate survey questionnaire (Rao-1989).
“The analysis of training climate as perceived by the supervisors” Covered various
aspects such as corporate philosophy policies superior, subordinate relationships, valued
performance features and behaviours, interpersonal and group relationship. The results
showed that reasonably good training-climate is prevailing in this organization but the
supervisors’ perception about training-climate differs according to their respective
departments.
Shiv Kumar Singh and Subhash Banerjee (2000) In order to keep pace with
modernization/expansion due to technological development, a strong manpower base
equipped with latest development has to be built with in Cement Industry, New Training
initiative has to be taken at all levels. A Trainer’s main objective is to transfer his
knowledge and skills to the Trainees. This paper is focused on the Trainer Roles in
Cement Industry, the factors which are important to become an effective Trainer. This
involves identifying training courses, choosing appropriate Training methods, evaluation
of Training activities, and helping the Trainer to deliver good Training to the Cement
Industry.
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Objectives and
Objectives and
Research
Research
Methodology
Methodology
Objectives of Study
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Human beings are interested to acquire information from different sources. They are
always eager to know more this urge of acquiring information is ever present in every
individual. Research is common parlance refers to a search for knowledge .It can be
also defined as a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a
specific topic.
In fact research is an art of scientific information. Some people consider research as a
movement, a movement from the known to the unknown. It is actually a voyage of
discovery. Research refers to search for knowledge. It is systematic enquiry seeking
facts through objective verifiable methods in order to discover the relationship among
them and to presume broad principles or laws for them.
The components of the research methodology are research design, type of data, data
collection, sampling plan and statistical tools used.
Research Design
A research design is purely and simply the frame work of the plan for a study that
given the collection and analysis of data. The function of the research design is
to ensure that the required data are collected accurately and economically. Descriptive
research design was adopted for this study because the study is concerned with
effect of training provided by college to students.
Data Collection
The sources of primary and secondary data are used for the collection of information
for the study.
Primary Data
The primary data is collected from the students of the department with the help
of structured questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of 19 questions. Out of which
11 questions were for Final year Students and 8 questions were for junior students.
The site for conducting survey (Surveydms.website2.me) was open and known to
students i.e. Population.
Secondary Data
The secondary data about the college profile and other details were collected from the
college web site.
Sample Size
Sample Design
Simple random sampling is used where each sample has an equal chance of getting
selected and all choices are independent of each other. It gives each possible sample
combination an equal probability of being chosen
Analysis of Data:-
Analysis of data involves a number of closely related operations which are
performed with the purpose of summarizing of collected data and organizing these in
such a manner that they answer the research questions.
After collection of data, researcher analyses the data. The researcher analyses
the collected data by using statistical measures bar chart.
Percentage Analysis
Percentage refers “for every hundred”.It is used to make easy comparisons of fraction.
In the study, fractions of respondents choosing different answers are converted
into percentages and interpretations are made.
Limitations of Study
This Research was conducted in only one college of MBA.
The Researcher was unable to collect all the data from students, because of some
constraints like interest in filling Questionnaires.
Even though the respondents were available they were not willing to give their
valuable responses because they were busy with their usual work
The data may not be unbiased because respondents were from same department
and Report will be submitted to same department, so there might be few biasness
in survey.
The Researcher could gather data from only____ students.
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Chapter
Data
Data
Presentations
Presentations
And
And
Analysis
Analysis
MBA 2 Year
MBA Integrated
MBA Specialization
Technical
Specialized Training(H.R,
Finance, Marketing)
Interview Related
Technical
Psychological/ Life
Science
Specialized
Training(H.R, Finance,
Marketing)
4. Training Workshop was well planned (Training Module & Training Material)
known in advance for clearing various doubts during running session
Purpose:- This question is asked to find “How much trainees were able to
participate during training workshop” with help of training module.
Strongly Disagree
Disagree
Neutral
Agree
Strongly Agree
Increased Motivation
6. To what extent training programs stands on your expectation (1 for Least 5 for
Excellent)
Purpose:- This question was asked to measure satisfaction level of trainees
1- Least
2- Good
3- Very Good
4- Outstanding
5- Excellent
7. If you get an option to get trained for one more time which training you will opt?
please specify
Purpose:- This question was open ended and the main intention was to ask this
to find which type of skills trainee lacks and wants to improve through training
program in future time period.
8. From first day of training to last day, please rate your classmates Traits to attend
workshop
Purpose:- Purpose behind asking this questions was to measure Physical
Presence and mental presence during training workshop of peer groups.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
9. After workshop, your chance of getting hired in any organization increased by?
(Please Specify in %)
Purpose:- This question was framed to get answer of last step of training
evaluation i.e. Results.
MBA 2 Year 04
MBA Integrated 16
MBA Specialization 10
Interpretation:-
1. Out of 30 Respondents of junior batches, 16 Respondents are from MBA
Integrated, 10 from MBA Specialization, and only 4 from MBA 2 year
program.
Interview Related 13
Technical 05
Specialized Training(H.R, 27
Finance, Marketing)
Interpretation
1. For this questions students were provided option to select 2 options according
to their need.
2. 13 Students want to have Interview related training in employability training
workshop, 5 students want to learn technical aspects, 2 students expects Life
science related training, while 27 students want to have Specialized training
according to their specialization(H.R, Finance, Marketing)
3. 90% students wish to cover specialized training in employability training.
3. Which time frame will be best for effective training session? (External
Training)
X/IV Sem 08
IX/III Sem 13
VIII/II Sem 06
4. What are your expectations from external training workshop(1 for minimum
focus 4 for Maximum)
Purpose:- One part of training according to Uday Pareekh is Focus, this
question asked to set priority of focus among various classification of
employability training workshop.
Increased Motivation 12 05 01 08
Total 26 27 27 27
Interpretation
3. 01 students has set at least focus on learning new skill, while 03 students want
to have minimum focus on learning new skills, while 14 students want some
training to learn new skills and 9 students focused maximum for learning new
skills.
4. 08 students wishes to have at least focus on gaining familiarity with current job
market, 05 students shown minimum focus, 06 students wants some focus on
this and 8 students want maximum focus on getting familiar with current job
market.
2. Exposure to the real work environment through internship, training and better
soft skills these I think can improve my chances of getting employed. The
cultural activities play an important role in personality development.
3. We ourselves. The trainer act as the guide or the adviser. Hard work and self-
confidence plays major role for this
Apart from this many Students tried to give answers in few but impactful
words like
Communication skills, confidence, general awareness, academic knowledge.
Being vibrant, practical knowledge, Proper training programs to face job
interview, Experience, Hard work and self-Motivation, Skill enhancement,
Increase self-abilities and many more.
Purpose:- The last part of training is to identify purpose, hence this question
also tries to find various purpose through open ended question.
Findings
Findings
And
And
Suggestions
Suggestions
ANNEXURE
ANNEXURE