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FocusWhether the employee is focused on his job and is able to distinguish his taskfrom personal assignments.2.4 Relationship between training and employeeperformanceWhat people have said about training and employee performance?The information thus far reveals a seeming consensus in the belief that thereis a positive relationship between training and employee performance. Thustraining impacts positively on employee’s performance by generating benefitsto both the employees and the organization they work for through thedevelopment of skills, knowledge, abilities, competencies and behavior.Training plays a significant role in the development of organizations,enhancing performance as well as increasing productivity, and ultimatelyputting companies in the best position to face competition and stay at thetop.This means that, there is a significant relationship betweenorganizations that train their employees and organizations that do not.According to Neo et al in his book Human Resource Management: GainingCompetitive Advantage in 2000, “he stated that only 16% of United Statesemployees have ever received any form of training from their employers”.From the researcher’s point of view, there is a possibility that in about five ormore years to come the rapid development in technology can cause highunemployment rate because these forms of technology will replace theunskilled labor in the United States. There is therefore the need for UnitedStates to put strategies and policies in place to ensure that its humanresource is trained in order to meet the standards of the growing technology.17