The Impact of On-the-Job Training on Employee Performance: A Study of Production Assistants in Noritake Lanka (Pvt) Limited

Abstract

Although a plenty of researches have conducted to assess the effects of employee training in manufacturing industry in other countries, in Sri Lankan context research findings in this regard are very limited. Therefore, the objective of the current study was to assess the impact of employee on-the-job training on performance of production assistants in one of the leading manufacturing organizations in Sri Lanka. The independent variable and the dependent variable of this study were the level of on-the job training and the employee performance respectively. The reliability of the instruments was tested by using Cornbrash’s Alpha coefficient. The type of this study is hypothesis testing ant it was conducted in the natural setting with the minimum interference of the researcher. The study is a cross-sectional in time and the primary data were collected by using random sampling technique and sample size was 100 production assistants who were working in Noritake Lanka (Pvt) Limited located Matale District. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire via an offline survey. The correlation and regressions analysis were performed to test hypotheses and analyzed data. Finding revealed that on-the-job training has a significant impact on employee performance. Correlation analysis shows that on-the-job training has a strong positive relationship with employee performance. As a significant factor, this would mean that it is very significant to pay a high attention regarding the on-the-job training methods, because it directly affects to the performance of the employees in addition to that proper and wellstructured on-the-job training are required to meet with the desired outcomes of the organization.