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Abstract:
This paper aims to provide a synthetic review of the literature on the training and development. Review of literature justifies
the reason for our research. It demonstrates the topic. It narrates a brief elaboration of prior studies. Prior research will help
us to ensure that we have included all of our major relevant constructs in our study. It talks about the knowledge of our field
which allows us to identify the gap which our research could fill and also strengths the topic that we chosen for our research.
The literature review will help us to find and select appropriate measurement instruments. The literature review is needed
because it is a necessary skill both for researchers and for practitioners of a profession which claims to be founded on a
knowledge base and also to locate and summarize the findings of research on a given topic not uncritically but assessing the
evidence and for argument to sustain the conclusions. It is also useful to obviate the need for fresh research or to replicate the
study. Polit and Hungler in the year (2001) stated that the term Literature Review is often used to cover both the process of
searching for relevant literature and the critical reporting of the literature. Cormack in the year (1991) stated that
Literature Review means to systematically read, critically appraise, and then synthesize the material into a coherent,
structured, and logical review of the literature.
Key words: Training and Development, Evaluation and effectiveness of training, Employees attitude, Satisfaction
of employees
1. Introduction
This paper enunciates the importance, need of review of literature and the related review of studies to the topic. Management
Education in India is of a comparatively recent origin. In the last two decades there has been a rapid growth in the number of
institutions offering management education. With the diversion of sizeable economics and human resources in this strategic area
of national development, there should be simultaneous endeavors to explore and study the various factors that affects management
training, right from the identification of the training needs, selection of suitable trainees, the modus operandi of the training
process, the supportive climate provided to the trainees in the organization the subsequent impact of the course on the trainees
efficiency and its effect on the organization.
In this paper, a review of studies related to the topic under study is given below:
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal et. al in the year (2011) has done their research in the topic AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHARACTERISTICS AND FORMATIVE EVALUATION OF TRAINING Their
analysis is about the relationship between characteristics and formative evaluation of Training. This paper attempted to signify the
use of formative training evaluation. The authors have carried out a study at three public-sector training institutions to empirically
test the predicted relationship between the training characteristics and formative training evaluation under the Kirkpatrick model
(reaction and learning) . This study explains the causal linkage between components of formative training evaluation, the
mediating role of reaction in the relationships between training characteristics and learning was also investigated. The principal
finding revealed that a set of seven training characteristics explained 59% and 61% variance in reaction and learning respectively.
All training characteristics were found to have a positive impact on reaction and learning except training contents. The study
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