Training & Development: A Review of its Outcome to Productivity in the Tea Industry in Sri Lanka
Abstract: Training & development is found to be an important factor across industries today. The main resource in particular being Human resource optimizing the value created through, it has a direct impact on an industries performance. Training & amp; development helps to increase the knowledge of the employees thus increasing the productivity of an employee. Though the return on investment on Training & amp; development cannot be specifically assessed, it is known to increase the output on employees. The tea industry in Sri Lanka employees around 2 million people who directly or indirectly are dependent on the industry. The tea industry earnes around 1.3 billion USD annually as foreign exchange. Therefore it’s a significant as well as an important area in the Sri Lankan economy (Janaka, Nishan, Saman, IPs) Lack of productivity has turn out to be a stumbling block for the development on the industry. Therefore, Training & amp; development have become a vital factor to increase the productivity of the industry. Therefore, this paper investigates Training & amp; development and its impact to the productivity of the employees in the industry.
Keywords: tea industry, training, productivity, plantations
How to Cite?: Waruna de Silva, "Training & Development: A Review of its Outcome to Productivity in the Tea Industry in Sri Lanka", Volume 9 Issue 3, March 2020, International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), Pages: 934-935, https://www.ijsr.net/getabstract.php?paperid=SR20315174540, DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21275/SR20315174540