Nineteenth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture, and Change in Organizations

Abstract

Employment training seeks to develop in the new employee a positive approach to his work and also achieve the highest possible level of work behavior. It is widely recognised as an important activity within the Retail Industry. The present research involves an investigation of the Training and Development adopted by ASDA and, accordingly, it also carefully examines the effectiveness of such Training and Development. The researcher has analysed different Training and Development topics and procedures which occur before, during and after the training programme. He has applied Kirkpatrick’s model of Four Level Training and Development evaluation to examine ASDA’s Training and Development effectiveness. The Transfer of Training model has also been used in this study in association with Kirkpatrick’s model.The researcher by using of questionnaire survey has analysed his findings with a reference to the effectiveness of ASDA’s Training and Development program. Finally, he has made some significant recommendations deduced from this study, which could benefit any future examinations of this or related topics.