Abstract:
This study aims at analyzing the determinant of factors affect trainings and its impact on
employee's performance in case of selected colleges in Harari regional state. Data were
collected from academic staff of Harar poly technique and Lucy college. A sample of 202
was selected from 408 total population by using Yamane formula, which was developed in
1967. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statics. Major findings
revealed that, training sessions conducted by the colleges actually does not arise from the
needs of the staff. Rather due to the order, which come from TVET agency, and the most
common challenges in delivering training in the study area was inconvenience timing. In
addition to that, the correlation result indicates that the factors affect the training and
academic staff performance has positive and significant relationship. Moreover, results of
OLS model show that academic staff performance is significantly and positively affected by
educational level, delivery modality, training contents, trainer's characteristics, and training
materials. While it significantly and negatively affected by work experience. The researcher
recommends that the training need should be identified by its importance to the
organization, the organization should discuss with the all stake holders to deliver the
trainings at convenient time, the trainer's should be competent enough and should have a
good characteristics, the training contents should be relevant to the trainee needs and gap
filling as well as easy to understand. In addition to that the training materials should be well
prepared and fulfilled, which is relevant with training types, trainee's and trainer's needs.
