Training and Developing Indian Banking Industry Employees

The banking industry has undergone major upheaval in recent years, largely due to the lingering recessionary environment and increased regulatory environment. Many banks have failed in the face of such tough environmental conditions. These conditions

The first three days a company begins their operation the bank will be contacting then so they can open an account. The bank also uses this policy and practice when it comes to managing and developing their employees. The Bank feels that training is extremely important. The bank feels that the training and developing will build up their employees so they are able to perform to their best ability. The bank feels that learning is a win-win situation. The employees succeed in life and also on the job (Shukla-Pandey, 2012).

Knowledgeable and well trained employees are needed in every organization. It is important employees are able to perform all the tasks needed in order to reach the organizations needs and achieve the set goals. As times change, employees may stay behind in skills or may even lack training when it comes to new systems, technology or other procedures that the company may need in order to better performance. That is when the importance of training is more evident. An organization has a large responsibility for their success which is why training, development, and career development is

There are various categories of banking; these include retail banking, directly dealing with small businesses and persons. Commercial and Corporate banking which offers services to medium and large businesses (Koch & MacDonald 2010). Private banking, deals with individuals, offering them one on one service. The last category is investment banking. These help clients to raise capital and often invest in financial markets. Most global banking institutions provide all these services combined. With all these institutions in existence within the same localities and offering similar services, there is a need to regulate the industry so as to protect the consumer and provide fair working environment for all banks (Du & Girma, 2011).

Extensive research has determined that the banking industry is in an unstable state. The industry’s profits have

Human resources are the most valuable assets of any organization, with the machines, materials and even the money; nothing gets done without man-power. In today’s business climate, businesses are faced with stiff internal and external competition. There are various human resource functions that give an organization a competitive edge, but most scholars argue that human resource functions becomes only operational when training has run through them all. This places training and development as an essential function in the survival of any organization. Increasingly, high performance organizations today are recognizing the need to use best training and development practices to enhance their competitive advantage.

Banking industry is highly competitive as there is high exit barrier. Moreover, competitors are large and quite equally balanced. Additionally, as banking industry has emerged for hundred years, just about everyone who needs banking services already has them.

Technological advancement has had a gigantic effect in the banking industry. Over the past few decades, the financial services industry has changed considerably with banking transforming from the pen and paper method to the computers and internet method. The pen and paper method took weeks or even months for the transaction to be eventually completed, and then the dramatic introduction of the computer and internet method which changed that time frame to only a matter of seconds to be completed, which reduced the amount of time and labor needed to complete a transaction significantly. Banking is considered one of the most important economic sectors with it being severely influential and responsive to any little change, whether it is domestic or international. Some extreme changes that were brought about by the development of this new technology turned into a globalized nature for the financial services industry. One stroke of a key on a computer could and would change a person 's life extensively or even have a global impact. The new technologies that were created and introduced changed how the consumers managed their money from that time on. Technology has helped to protect peoples’ hard earned money and make it much more impossible for people to be able to write out bad checks or even holding up a bank. The advancement in technology however, also came with some security risks as most things do, that could affect the money that people trusted with the bank and

In our society people interact with the banking industry everyday. As of 2014 the industry had revenues of $426 billion (IBIS, 2014). Monetary policy effects how citizens and corporations approach the economy. Banks have the ability to influence monetary decision-making of each individual causing change in the state of the economy. Following is a discussion of how banks affect behavior of people in the economy.

Private banking industry has changed in a very basic way, driven by many key factors such as: free competition systems, modern developments in information technology (in particular, developments of the internet), and changing demographics. Private banks now operate in an environment shaped by increasing and shifting regulations, and in markets influenced by the uncontrolled situations of the world economy and geopolitical issues.

Economic Development: Banks facilitate the development of saving plans and are instruments of the government’s monetary strategic policies among others. They also provide credit provision, liquidity provision, and risk management services, remittance of money, rapid economic development, and promotion of

Chapter - I deals with the Introduction of the Commercial Banking Sectors in India, Statement of Problem, and Period of the Study, Objectives of the Study, Hypotheses and Data analysis, Methodology, Limitations of Study and the Chapter Scheme.

Banking Industry is the chief indicator of the growth of any country’s economy. India with its huge populations presents a huge scope for banking industry. State Bank of India is a public sector unit and enjoys the market leader position. HDFC is catching up on the back of its exquisite growth in last decade. And with the relaxation of government control, private players are in a much better position to compete. But both the banks have their own problems

This research focuses on the impact of training and development on employees’ performance in the banking industry using Zenith bank plc as a case study.

The last time that technology had a major impact in helping banks service their customers was with the introduction of the Internet banking. Internet Banking helped give the customer's anytime access to their banks. Customer's could check out their account details, get their bank statements, perform transactions like transferring money to other accounts and pay their bills sitting in the comfort of their homes and offices. However the biggest limitation of Internet banking is the requirement of a PC with an Internet connection, not a big obstacle if we look at the US and the European countries, but definitely a big barrier if we consider most of the developing countries of Asia like China and