TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

INTRODUCTION People play a pivotal role in the accomplishments of any successful business as evinced in many organizational aphorisms (Somasundaram and Egan, 2004) in gaining competitive advantage (Wei-Tao, 2006) . It is an explicit fact that no single human enterprise can succeed without properly skilled and knowledgeable human resource development professionals (Goodman and Wood, 2004) . Over the past few decennaries, training and development in organizations has undergone a peculiar transfigurations (McDowall and Saunders, 2010) . Training objectives have expanded beyond elevating efficiency on simple manual tasks to dispensing employees with the skills needed to perform intricate and dynamic job, along with the transformation of the essence of work (Bell et al. , 2017) . Training is the effort initiated by an organization to foster learning (Kraiger and Culbertson, 2013) among its workers for the acquisition of intellectual capital such as  knowledge  and attitudes (G