Training & Development Impact Research Proposal

This research proposal investigates the impact of training and development on the performance and productivity of employees and educational organizations in Oman. It employs a descriptive and causal research design, utilizing both primary (questionnaires with 100 participants) and secondary data. The study aims to assess the effectiveness of current training initiatives, analyze the relationship between training and employee performance, determine the impact of employee performance on organizational performance, and suggest improvements to training programs. The literature review examines existing research on training and development's effects on organizational performance, highlighting the importance of aligning training with organizational goals and employee needs. The methodology details data collection and analysis techniques, including SPSS and Excel, to identify correlations and regressions between variables. The expected outcome is a comprehensive report and publication contributing to the improvement of Oman's educational sector.

The impact of Training and Development on performance and productivity of employees and the
educational organizations in Oman
Research Proposal
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Abstract
Oman is facing increasing need for raising the competencies in of the trainers, educators and the
other providers of the educational services so that the country ensures that they are ready to
respond to the changing demands of the stakeholders in an appropriate manner. So, Oman‘s
major agendum is to provide every citizen of the country with access to the education and also
improving the quality of those services. The research topic is to study “The impact of Training
and Development on performance and productivity of employees and the educational
organizations in Oman”. On the basis of this topic, the research aims to fulfill its objectives of
inquiring into the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Training and Development activities
in the educational organizations in Oman, studying the impact of Training and Development on
performance and productivity of employees, determining the impact of performance and
productivity of employees on the performance and productivity of the educational organizations
and suggesting ways of improving the Training and Development initiatives in the in the
educational organizations in Oman. The research will follow a descriptive and causal research
design.
Keywords: Training and Development, Productivity, Performance

Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Research objectives.............................................................................................................................4
Significance of research.......................................................................................................................5
Literature review.........................................................................................................................................6
Research methodology................................................................................................................................9
Research design...................................................................................................................................9
Research ethics..................................................................................................................................10
Data collection...................................................................................................................................10
Communicating the results........................................................................................................................12
Timeline of research..................................................................................................................................12
References.................................................................................................................................................13

Introduction
The educational sector is one of the most important sectors in Oman. This is because; the
education plays the role of a driver for channelizing the economic growth of the country and for
the sustainable development. The sector requires comprehensive and relevant programs for the
development of capability so that the developmental challenges of the country can be overcome
and the country can develop economically, the quality of its people improves and sustainable
development happens. The country is facing increasing need for raising the competencies in of
the trainers, educators and the other providers of the educational services so that the country
ensures that they are ready to respond to the changing demands of the stakeholders in an
appropriate manner. So, Oman‘s major agendum is to provide every citizen of the country with
access to the education and also improving the quality of those services. The country has
implemented many educational reforms like the decentralization of the education management
system, gaining support of the several funding agencies, developing the curriculum (Sharma,
2015) etc., but, one of the critical issues faced by the educational sector in Oman is quality
assurance. For providing the good quality of education to the students in universities of Oman,
the instructors need to have something beyond their level of knowledge. The way of delivering
the knowledge, the presentation skills and to make the people understand and apply the concepts
matters a lot and to do all this, they have to be really efficient. For this, they need to be trained
and developed. They must be trained for the delivery of education, for understanding the mental
capacity of the students and for making them understand the importance of the subjects and
courses.
Conventional training is given to the people of the organizations that cover the essential work-
related skills, knowledge and techniques (Dalhoeven, 2016). This calls for a progressive approach

towards the traditional training. The chief orientation of training and development is towards the
fact that hat is good for the people rather than the profitability of the companies (Saha, 2014).
Basically, the rule underlining this fact is that what is good for the people proves to be good for
the organization too. The improvement in the performance of the people directly impacts the
performance of organization, its quality of services, and the increased satisfaction of the
customers, effective management and control and thus, the profit improves too. When the
educational organizations approach the training and development from this point of view, then
the people are invariably fostered and they start to perform well. They become progressive
slowly, they stay with the organization for a longer time and they help others in developing and
learning new things.
Training is a narrow word, basically, when the whole person develops, then the real meaning of
training can be understood. When training is given, the entire skills should be transferred from
the instructor to the trainees. The objectivity of the training and development along with the
continued process of learning has been with the educational organizations from the very
beginning but now, it has become an over- arching trend of the social needs of the people (Sung,
2014). The emphasis has shifted on the fact that all the educational institutions in Oman should
inculcate a culture of learning and this is not only required for their development but for
fulfilling the social responsibility too. Many studies have researched on this and found that there
are sound connections between various training and development activities and the measures of
organizational performance.

Research objectives
The research topic is to study “The impact of Training and Development on performance and
productivity of employees and the educational organizations in Oman”. On the basis of this
topic, the following objectives have been formulated and they will be fulfilled in the research.
Objectives:
1. To inquire into the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Training and Development
activities in the educational organizations in Oman
2. To study the impact of Training and Development on performance and productivity of
employees
3. To determine the impact of performance and productivity of employees on the
performance and productivity of the educational organizations
4. To suggest ways of improving the Training and Development initiatives in the in the
educational organizations in Oman
Significance of research
This study is very important to be carried out because the educational organizations must
understand the importance of training and development and its impact on the progression of the
organization. This study will give an insight to the organizations for the correct decision making,
for thinking creatively and for managing the people. With the determination of the impact of
training and development on the productivity and performance of employees, the weakness of
the employees can be addressed by the educational organizations in Oman and it can make sure
that the quality of education which is provided to the people is not sacrificed. Then, the major
benefit that the organizations will get is, that they will know about the improvement in the
performance of the employees with training and development. When the relation between the

variables will be clearly represented, it will help the organizations in focusing on this area and
hence develop its people. The organization’s performance is also changed when the performance
of its people change. So, this study will help in establishing a link between the two.

Literature review
As found by (Saeed, 2013), training and development has a direct impact on the development f
the organization. (Torraco, 2016) has defined organizational development as a process of
increasing the effectiveness of the companies using a planned approach that flows from the top
to the bottom. This effort is not limited to few of the areas of the company; instead, it is an
organization-wide effort. (Cummings, 2014) writes that the organizations can be developed when
the proper interventions are done by the companies and the use of behavioral science is made to
improve its processes. The development of the educational institutions is not an easy task, it is a
very complex strategy that needs to be implemented properly so that the required areas of change
are triggered and the beliefs, attitudes, values and structures of the company are changed
accordingly. (Burke, 2015) has emphasized on the fact that for bringing improvements in the
organizations, anything cannot be just done. Instead, proper change processes are required to be
implemented that can help in reaching to a sustainable and beneficial end result.
(Cheung-Judge, 2015) has mentioned that for ensuring that the employees of a company are
equipped with the correct skill sets, knowledge and abilities, then they can perform their tasks in
the expected manner and for this, training and development plays a crucial role. (Cheung-Judge,
2015) further writes that with the right set of training given, the right set of skills can be
possessed by the employees and thus they can apply them in the company for helping it in
achieving its goals. (Rothwell, 2013) has explained that the current and the future demands of the
business can be met when the employees of the companies are given with the proper training and
development facilities. When they are trained and developed, they get to play a strategic role and
hence they help others in developing too.

(Jacques, 2013) specifically talks about the educational institutions and the need for training and
development in them. He says that knowledge can be transferred only via the person who
instructs others. So, they are the major source of the development of knowledge in others. They
must possess the skills with which they can transfer the knowledge to others. Hence, the
educational institutions must help its employees in getting the appropriate training and
development facilities so that they can gain an understanding about how they can deliver the
knowledge to others and they can also overcome their weaknesses.
(Lamadrid, 2015) has mentioned that there is a direct relation between the training and
development activities in the educational institutions and its impact on the growth and
development of the organizations. He says that with the training and development, the weakness
of the employees of the company can be overcome; the performance of the people improves
when they get to learn new things and they are able to apply that knowledge. Then, the
performance of the people who get involved with training and development improves and rises
consistently. The satisfaction of the people rises because they feel that the organization is making
an effort towards their personal development. Hence they deliver better services and the overall
productivity of the organization improves. The organizations have to incur the cost of training
and development but, the overall costs reduces because it has to face less losses in the future and
it is able to deal with the challenges of the company in a better way. Finally, the supervision
reduces and the employees become independent to work.
(Ford, 2014) agrees to these points, and he further writes that with the training and development
activities n the educational organizations, the human resources are utilized in a better way. The
productivity of the employees rises in direct proportion with the rise in the training and
development activities. The corporate image of the company as well as its employees improves

and a sense of teamwork, team spirit and collaborations improve too. The skills of the employees
do not become obsolete and the health and safety is maintained.
Thus the literature has suggested the following things:
1. The Training and Development activities in the educational organizations are very
effective and appropriate in any organization, be it educational institutes or nay other and this
can be applied for Oman too.
2. The Training and Development has a positive impact on performance and productivity of
employees and the performance and productivity of employees’ increases in direct proportion
with the Training and Development activities.
3. The impact of performance and productivity of employees is positive on the performance
and productivity of the educational organizations because when employees perform well, the
companies grow and same is the case with educational institutions.
4. To improve the Training and Development initiatives in the educational organizations in
Oman, the companies will have to adopt the best practices in the industry.

Research methodology
Research design
The present study is a combination of many research designs. Firstly, it is descriptive in nature.
Descriptive study will help in fulfilling the first objectives of the research i.e. inquire into the
effectiveness and appropriateness of the Training and Development activities in the educational
organizations in Oman. Since the descriptive designs helps to understand that ‘what, when and
where’ exists (Woodward, 2013), therefore, it is appropriate in the present context. Here, the aim
is to obtain the information regarding the current status of the effectiveness and appropriateness
of the Training and Development activities in the educational organizations in Oman and it to
describe the ‘what’ part of this objective with respect to the variables in the situation. The study
is based on the analysis of the quantitative data and descriptive research design is often used as a
pre-cursor to the quantitative researches. This is because, it helps in giving a general overview of
the valuable pointers and it helps in knowing that which of the variables are worth testing
quantitatively. In the last objective, the ways have to be suggested for improving the Training
and Development initiatives in the in the educational organizations in Oman and for this, the
descriptive research an yield a rich data that can help in establishing valuable recommendations
that can be put into practice by the organizations (Yin, 2013).
Apart from the descriptive design, the research is causal too. This research design will help in
measuring that what impact a specific change will have on the existing assumptions and the
norms (Lewis, 2015). In the current study, the impact of the performance and the productivity of
the employees have to be seen on the performance and the productivity of the organization. This
research is basically used when the variation in one of the phenomenon, i.e. the independent
variable, helps in reaching to some results and that leads to variation in the other phenomenon

i.e. the dependent variable (Lewis, 2015). The research had to come to a valid conclusion which
needs to be based on the finding and an association between the independent variable and
dependent variable. Since this requirement had to be fulfilled so, the causal research design has
been selected in the research.
Research ethics
The research ethics that will be followed here includes honesty in all the communications related
to this study. For example, the participants will be communicated about the objectives of
research in detail and they will also be communicated regarding the significance of study so that
they do not feel cheated. All the results of the study will be based on the analysis of the data
which will be done in an objective manner. The promises and the agreements during the study
will be kept and the consistency will be maintained in the thought and the actions. The validity
and reliability of the questionnaire will be tested using the Cronbach’s alpha so that the
responses are worth analyzing.
Data collection
Source- The research will be carried out using the primary and the secondary data. The
primary data will be collected using the instruments mentioned below and it will give the
quantitative data. Also, the secondary data will be collected from the journals, articles;
newspapers etc. which will form a base for the study, help in identifying the variables and will
also help in fulfilling few of the objectives in the study.
Sample- A sample of 100 people will be selected from the various educational institutions who
will respond to the questions in the questionnaire. The sample will be randomly selected but will
include employees, directors of the company and the CEO’s. A sample of 100 will be a good
representation for the entire population.