Problems Of Employee Training And Development In Public Sector

CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY 1.0 Introduction According to Okotoni and Erero (2005), there has been a general resistance to investment in training in the public service because of the belief that employees hired under a merit system must be presumed to be qualified, that they were already trained for their jobs, and that if this was not so it was evidence that initial selection of personnel was at fault. This assumption has been jettisoned as the need for training became obvious both in the private and the public sectors. Many organizations have come to recognize that trai…