Successful human resources managers recognize that their competitive edge in todays market place is their people. They also acknowledge that the sustainability of their organisation is dependent on effective training and development programmes they implement to foster employee's performance. However, there are human resource management theories and models that may or may not be applicable to this notion for small and developing organisations.

Questions:

1. Give detailed explanation of how organisations measure the effectiveness of their training and development programmes.

2. Give detail explanation of some sustainability factors for consideration in small or developing organisations.

3. Give detail explanation how training and development programmes foster employee's performance?

4. Identify are some human resources management theories and models that support employee's performance is as a result of effective training and development efforts by managers.