training is the act of increasing the skills of an employee for doing a particular job.
defines training as a systematic acquisition of skills,rules, concepts or attitudes that results in improved performance in another environment.
have defined training ‘‘as the planned intervention that is designed to enhance the determinants of individual job performance’’.
Training is the area where organisational, industrial, and individual development can match, and where human resource and organisation growth get blended together (Sundarajan, 2007).
Training serves to improve the performance of employees, which, in turn, provides a competitive edge to the organisation