A STUDY OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ATTITUDE OF EMPLOYEES ON THE BASIS OF ON- THE- JOB TRAINING COURSES GIVEN IN MALEKE- ASHTAR UNIVERSITY, IRAN

Due to increase in science and technology the need to bring recent updates that will improve organization performance has made it necessary to train employees periodically. The training of employees ensure enhancement of knowledge, skills of the staff will that in turn will help achieve, competency and personal development. A training program will be effective only when it brings about the desired change in behaviors, skill and efficiency of the participants in the program. The increase in productivity at place of work can be measured only through comprehensive evaluation.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of training program of M.A. University based on Kirk Patrick model and the training program of management project unit was evaluated on the basis of Kirk Patrick model. Four indices in this program include the reaction of participants in the training program, the rate of learning, the amount of changes made in the behavior of participants and finally the results at the end of the training program.
The findings indicate the program had effective impact on employees in terms of change in behavior, knowledge and skills. It can be concluded that the training program evaluation reduced problems by 13 percent. Further analysis of evaluation results indicate project management unit training had the efficacy of 46% which is considered satisfactory by training program professionals and managers.