Update the Capacity of Your Staff Members with this Practical Reference: We can have the greatest business model in the world and the best systems, but if our employees cannot handle the growth, we are still toast. If our company is not investing in training, its competitiveness in the market may become weak. Think about all the companies you admire as models for doing business right; you will not only find that they have got a good training program, but training is a part of their culture. If we ask them why they train, they probably consider our question like why we breathe. If we want to breathe some life into our operation, start by investing in our people: train them. As staffing patterns change, new technologies are introduced, and new societal needs are expressed, staffs have an increased need for opportunities in training and development. Here is the information you need to not only show you the step by step of handling the training programmes but also to excel your job by creating competent labour force. Programmes that support the development of the human resources are the most rewarding of any activity-for the individual, the organization, and the public that serves.

Information pertaining to stocks of personnel provides details relating to the characteristics of the current labour force involved in organizations. The study of personnel statistics has immense importance in building the knowledge for informed decisions in the areas of human resources management activities. The intense dissemination and practice of personnel statistics will deepen the analysis of employee demographics that will assist managers in planning and implementation of personnel related issues in their organizations. This guide of personnel statistics aims at improving the quality, consistency and availability of personnel related statistics useful for assessing and monitoring human resources planning and development of any organization. It also provides a suite of harmonized statistical data and information for better decision making. The guide deals with the procedures and practice for processing data related to personnel and serves to instill personnel related ideals, values, principles, practices, calculations, etc. for practitioners who are going to shoulder the concepts of personnel statistics.

Cooperative movement in Ethiopia has been identified as a suitable vehicle for mobilization of resources for rural development. Multi-purpose cooperatives are one form of cooperatives that are providing different services to their members.Their general tasks have been provision of inputs and credit and support in the marketing of basic products. The result of the survey indicated that cooperatives are serving the rural community and contributing a lot in improving the standards of living of their members. They undertake various economic activities which help the members in promoting agricultural products. However, because of poor implementation capacity and low managerial, financial and operational competence, multipurpose cooperatives have not been able to strengthen and expand their business operations as per the expectations. In summary, the rural cooperatives studied appears to have played a significant role in increasing economic production of agricultural sector and can be considered as agents of change, though they need capacity building programs so as to improve the efficiency of the services and become competitive in the market.