Abstract:
This study aims to identify the effectiveness of outbound training (OBT)
programs on changing employees’ behavior in Parliament of Sri Lanka. Even
though, there has been several researches done in international level on the
area of outbound training, very few evidence can be found in Sri Lankan
context relating to the area of outbound training. Therefore, this research is
filling the empirical gap of the area of outbound training and its effect on
employee behavior. The main objective of this research is to identify the
effectiveness of outbound training programs on changing employees' behavior
in Parliament of Sri Lanka. The data was collected from 138 employees of
Parliament who recently participated in an OBT program by using non
probability sampling method. Sampling technique used for this study was
convenient sampling where the data was collected from the employees who
were conveniently available. This study was carried out in two phases. At the
first phase, data were collected from employees before the outbound training
program and in phase 2, data was collected from employees after the
outbound training program. This study found out that, the effectiveness of
outbound training methodis positively correlated with employees’ behavior.
Moreover, it was proved that the effectiveness of outbound training method is
positively correlated with two dimension of employees’ behavior namely
skills and attitude. And researcher found there is no relationship between the
effectiveness of outbound training program and knowledge dimension of
employees’ behavior. It is concluded that there is a significant positive
relationship between the effectiveness of outbound training method and
employees’ behavior. In addition, the effectiveness of outbound training
method has a positive impact on two dimensions of employees’ behavior
(skills and attitude) and it does not have any impact on knowledge dimension
of employees.
