ENHANCING PERFORMANCE OF PORT VIA TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR EMPLOYEES: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CHENNAI PORT TRUST AND DJIBOUTI PORT
Keywords:
Chennai port trust, Djibouti port, Training and developmentAbstract
In this competitive environment, training acts as a significant role in enhancing the individuals. Specifically, Port plays a lead role in economic development and hence it is necessary to analysing the role of training and development for enhancing the employee’s performance in port. Therefore, this paper reviews the increasing performance of employees in port through training and development programs conducted by two ports like Chennai and Djibouti port. To acquire this, the study adopts secondary data collection method. Various resources like magazines, official reports of two ports and other obtainable sources were used to collect the data. The findings of the paper revealed that training programme conducted by Chennai port trust is very systematic, structured and give various competency skills to their employees; as a result, the port performance is also increasing. However, some factors can hinder the employee's performance in port was observed. With respect to Djibouti port, training programs were majorly carried out to protect the employees through safety and environmental training program. The organization still lacks in employee training for enhancing their knowledge and skills regarding their performance of specific work. Considering the overall findings, the study concluded that the two chosen ports have adopted different training programs for employees. When compared to both ports, Chennai ports handled numerous training programs for employees to enrich their knowledge and skills with respect to specific work in respective departments than Djibouti port.
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