Due to intense competition and technological up-gradation, the need for employee training has become inevitable in recent years. To have desired performance, innovativeness and competitiveness, the most crucial element required by a firm is its workforce’s knowledge and skills. Training is the systematic attainment and growth in knowledge, skills, and attitudes of learners to maintain continuous improvement and workplace education. Many organizations fulfill their training needs in an ad hoc and haphazard manner. Training of this type is more or less unplanned and unsystematic. Other organizations however start with identifying their training needs followed by designing and implementing suitable training programme, and finally analyze outcomes of training. More emphasis should be put on investment in employee development in order to get better results as the success of an organization relies on the skills and abilities of their employees. The present paper puts light upon the need for training and development in an organization and its impact on the organizational effectiveness. It also discusses recent developments in the field of training and development.

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Keywords: Training, Development, Learning, Organizational Effectiveness, eLearning.