Abstract:
Training and development is to enable employees to acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes 
necessary to enable them to improve their performances. This study examined to the effect of training and 
development on employee performance and satisfy customers in effective and efficient way. This study 
used questionnaire, interviews and document review as instrument of data collection. Stratified sampling 
method was used to select samples from the target population and uses convenience sampling to 
distribute questioners. The study employed quantitative survey research design to gather data from a total 
of 240 employees of the commercial bank of Ethiopia. Semi structured interview was also used to gather 
the qualitative information from the team leaders of human resource development department to find out 
the management view on the training need, program, employee motivation and employee performance of 
the bank. After the required data are collected descriptive (i.e. frequency, percentage) analysis were used 
to analyses the data using SPSS version 23. The results of this study revealed that each of the training 
and development need, program, and employee motivation and employee performance of the bank is not 
conducted properly. Moreover, the overall training performance of the commercial bank of Ethiopia, are 
not effective as they should be. And this is due to the gaps that are seen in each training need, program, 
employee motivation and employee performance and these in return decrease the effectiveness of the 
training performance of the bank. Furthermore, it provided practical suggestions to overcome the 
problems that were seen in the training need, program, and employee motivation of the commercial bank 
of Ethiopia. In order to have an effective training performance the commercial bank of Ethiopia should 
have to conduct each and every training process and program properly. The existence of training and 
development need, programs and employee motivation in place by itself doesn’t assure the effectiveness 
of the training performance unless it is supported by organized training process. Therefore, since each 
training activities are interrelated they need to be conducted with due care and on- time delivery of the 
training and updates employees about new products and services should also be given the necessary 
attention to have an effective training need, program, employee motivation and employee performance of 
the organization.