International Journal in Management & Social Science
Year : 2015, Volume : 3, Issue : 8
First page : ( 143) Last page : ( 152)
Online ISSN : 2321-1784.

Employee Training at oldest Establishment of Defence Research & Development Organization in Odisha

Sannigrahi A K

Scientist ‘F’ & Additional Director Proof & Experimental Establishment (PXE), Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), PO-Chandipur, Dist.-Balasore, Odisha, 75602

Online published on 22 June, 2018.

Abstract

Similar to other laboratories of Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), employees at Proof & Experimental Establishment (PXE), Chandipur were also trained through ‘Off the Job’ training courses either under Continuing Educational Program (CEP) at PXE and in other DRDO Labs or through some training courses conducted internally by PXE or externally by some specialized organizations for developing their skills, for upgrading their knowledge and for bringing desired changes in their attitudes and behaviours. During 2009 to 2013 under CEP total 439 employees were trained in 26 training courses conducted at PXE while 165 employees were trained at other DRDO labs. Beside CEPs, 306 employees also got training through 12 other training courses carried out at PXE while 443 employees were trained through other training courses conducted by some non-DRDO institutes. Fifty five percent trainings conducted at PXE under CEP were of Technical nature mainly on technologies for effective Test and Evaluation of Armaments and different Safety Procedures while 13 percent training courses were on Administrative and Human Resource Management topics and 32 percent trainings were for soft skill development (Computer fundamentals, Multi skill development, etc.). Considering all trainings together conducted every year it was noticed that about 87.5 to 94.5 percent trainees were male employees while 5.4 to 12.5 percent trainees were female employees during these five years. Highest percentage (38.7%) of employees got training under CEP belonged to either Diploma or Graduate in qualification, followed by Post Graduate or Ph. D (27.2%) while 10th standard or below and 12th standard or ITI passed trainees were about 17.5 percent and 16.6 percent respectively. Majority of trainees under CEP were from Defence Research Technical Cadre (64%) employees while Admin & Allied Cadre and Defence Research & Development Service/Scientist cadre employees were found 18.9 percent and 16.4 percent respectively. In 38 Seminars/Conferences 92 employees participated in which male and female participants were 82.6 and 17.4 percents respectively. Evaluation of training effectiveness was usually carried out at PXE in two level of Kirkpatrick's evaluation model i.e. in ‘Reaction level’ (Level 1) by taking feedback from participants immediately after completion of training and also in Behaviour level (Level 3) by taking feedback from trainee's Group Heads after six months. In all cases participants were satisfied with training and their superiors found trainings were highly effective. The evaluation of knowledge improvement or Learning gain (Level 2) for trainees has been started in 2013.

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Keywords

Employee training, Management training, Technical Training, Training effectiveness.

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