The characteristics of successful organization are continuous improvement job orientation, customer focus, team relationship, flat and flexible organization structures, empowerment, and vision- and value-driven leadership. On the job-training is a fundamental requirement for the sustained existence and is a precondition for continuous improvement and organizational growth. The objective of this research is to measure the impact of on the job training towards the job performance of private organization. Fundamentally, this research project focuses on the relationship of the most three job training factors that impact on job performance including employee empowerment, team relationship, and transformational leadership. The respondents selected were 80 employees working in TPM Technopark Sdn Bhd, 45% of respondent were male and 55% of respondent were female. Respondents were also grouped under 7 departments which are marketing and corporate department, architect department, human resource and administration department, finance department, project management department, quantity survey or contract department, and town planning department. Procedure probability Simple Random Sampling (SRS) technique is used in this research project in which each element in the population has a known and equal probability of selection. Three independent variables were identified as the factors and proved to have significant relationship towards the impact on private organizational employees with strong or very strong coefficient correlation statistically significant.
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