• Rapid technological innovations impacting the workplace have made it necessary for people to consistently update their knowledge and skills
• People have to work in multidimensional areas , which usually demand far more from their area of specialisation.
• Change in the style of management.
• Due to non-practical collage education.
• Lack of proper and scientific selection procedure.
• For career advancement.
• For higher motivation and productivity.
• To make the job challenging and interesting
• For self and development
• For employee motivation and retention
• To improve organisational climate
• Prevention of obsolescence
• To help an organisation to fulfil its future manpower needs.
• To keep in pace with times
• To bridge gap between skills requirement and skills availability