The Impact of Professional Training and Development Practices on the Employees Performance: A Case Study of Ministry of Education in Bahrain

The need for increased productivity among the employees of Ministry of Education has become widely accepted, which results to the increase in the demand of training and development practices. Training is a systematic development of knowledge, skills and attitudes required by employees to perform adequately on a given task. This study aims to find out the impact of training and development on employee’s productivity in the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The empirical findings of the study demonstrated that training and development is one of the major tools for enhancing the performance of the employees of Ministry of Education. The training programs provide effective benefits to the Ministry along with its employees as relevant to the amount of cost incurred for it. It was also found that the training helps in assessing the needs that can make the training program and the employees improve all of their weaknesses. The findings also revealed that training also helps to evaluate the areas that need further improvement of training programs