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Personnel Training in a Cooperative Organisation

I N A DEVELOPING country like ours, the instruments available to government for the administration of development are mainly three: government departments, public and cooperative organisations, and private organisations. One of the key factors in the effort of government to accomplish its developmental goals is to enhance its administrative capability for development, which is very much a part of the development process. But our experience during the last three decades has demonstrated that the development plans have not been satisfactorily implemented because of inadequate administrative performance. The reasons for the low level of administrative performance include organisational defects, lack of coordination, complex and cumbersome administrative and financial procedures, etc. These defects and deficiencies need to be corrected in order to bring about a sharp reduction in the administrative obstacles to development. Simultaneously, the level of competence of public service personnel directly involved in the execution of projects and implementation of development plans can be raised by training them in modern concepts and techniques of administration and management. This category of personnel at the senior or intermediate levels, comprising both technocrats and generalists, is constantly called upon to discharge increasingly heavy administrative and managerial responsibilities. In this context, one of the ICA seminar on cooperative leadership, held in New Delhi in 1960, rightly declared in the first sentence of its recommendations that, "Cooperative education and training should be organised in appropriate forms at all levels and in every branch of the movement's activity".1 As such, training is the fastest growing segment of personnel activities.2 It is an essential feature of a career service and should become a constant preoccupation for any organisation. One aspect is job security; the other, and more important, is retention and development of the staff in order to improve