Training programmes are important component in the process of developing a committed and flexible high-potential workforce and socializing new employees. In the modern workplace, these efforts have taken a broad range of applications, from training in highly specified job skills to longterm professional developments, and are applicable to all sorts of employees ranging from line staff to the chief executive officer. Good training programmes can help employees to represent the best interests when difficult situation occurs and ongoing training programmes can reduce employees’ turnover and promote loyalty. In relate to this, training programmes are used to ensure that the new employees acquire the basic knowledge to perform the given job satisfactorily. In addition, these programmes can save employers’ money, provide big returns to an organization because the organization that invests money to train its employees enjoys dividends. Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been reaping the fruit of innovative training practices from the employees by improved production, decreased accidental loss, increased market coverage, increased employee retention, growth in employee job satisfaction. This paper endeavors to outline the importance of training programmes along with deals with the training practices that are being conducted in RSP.
