An assessment of effectiveness of employee’s training practices inTanzania local government: a case study of Bagamoyo District Council

The study was on an assessment of Effectiveness of Employee’s Training practices, focusing on Tanzania local government. Particular attentions were part on identifying the existence of training program, implementation and evaluation of training programme. If any problem facing employee’s training practices local Government. The policy in the standing order for the public services directs organization to establish training programs and make sure that organizations have sufficient trained and skilled manpower for the development of the council. Unfortunately same of employees of Bagamoyo District Council have the organization after training and the human resources department is not involved in fully coordination of employee training and development. The objective of the study were: to identity the existing of training programme; to evaluate the implementation of training programme ; to determine problem facing employees training practices and examine the employee’ training practices. The study adopted mainly a case study qualitative research approach for collection of data in the field. However, the instruments used to collect data, namely questionnaires, observation and documentary reviews has also generated quantitative date. Therefore, the qualitative and quantitative methods complemented each other. The study was conducted in Bagemoyo District Council in Tanzania mainland. The findings from the study revealed that most of employees were not satisfied with the training programme practices in the council due to some reasons such as lack of enough fund to support the programme, lack of support from top management, employees readiness for training, no replacement of employees when going for training and the last one was the change of the work structure. Moreover the majority of employees identified the training programs they seem to urgently needs by tem for the better performance of their duties. Therefore, the findings reveal that majority of employees agreed with the existence of training program, its implementation and practices and finally found that employee’s training practices at BDC is ineffective.