Implication of Training and Development in Educational Sector: Thrust on Retention of Academic Staff

A true educational institution shall struggle for promoting values and fostering culture that facilitates academic atmosphere and competency development among all staff in the learning process. The fact is that management support the development, even the awareness is there among staff but because of personal reasons the faculty does not come up. Faculties have no self motivation for development. The pressure of the overall system is so much thus not making continuous development feasible for the teaching staff. We need to refresh our education system for faculty enhancement.

It is assumed that training is a valuable activity for enhancing skills and improving staff performance and that training can address some of the factors contributing to staff retention, such as job satisfaction, motivation and career growth. Training alone cannot address all of the factors contributing to staff retention, however, it is reasonable to assume that training can play a role in improving retention, but it may not be sufficient to improve retention if other systematic barriers are not addressed like organization culture, staff relations ,available resources.

The study have shown that the investing in training is one of the ways an institute can help retain staff, while reaping other benefits. The study is carried out in four educational institutes in Nagpur which strongly believes on the training effectiveness. Data has been collected through the process of interviewing higher authorities and staff of the institutes as well as by conducting questionnaire survey for staff. Samples of staff for survey is selected randomly, whereas samples of higher authorities for interview are selected according to convenience, as approval and support of the participating institutes for the study was a factor not under the control of the researcher. Institutes’ records have helped a lot to reach to conclusion. After collection of data, that data has been systematically pooled for further analysis. Hypothesis testing has been done with the help of ANNOVA test.