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Role playing and training are important elements of employee development. It has occupied an important place in management training and development as a method of simulating real life situations. This method enables participants to understand better the behavior of others as well as their own emotions and feelings. It is also an excellent exercise for analyzing problems, job interview to see how comfortably they communicate, improving selling by applying various selling solutions, developing team work, cooperation and creative problem solving exercises for improving listening skills. The trainer has to belief the person who are going to play the role describing the role to be played and the manner in which it is be played.After the role play session is over, it is discussed not only with the group but also with the players as to how good as bad they have done it. This discussion facilitates the learning process. Learning is facilitated by active participant rather than passive reception. Lecture method believes in passive reception whereas role playing believes in active participation. Hence, the role playing should be more effective provided it is conducted properly and timely. This paper throws up the Efficacy of role playing in training and development for trainees/managers to understand the role playing, and their Efficacy so that they can make a training programmes of role playing more effective. This is a conceptual paper which could be used by managers/trainers in organizations as a frame work for designing role playing training programmes.To this end, the researcher attempts to define role playing and understand why role playing is unique and effective for any organization. This paper highlights its implications for trainers/managers team leaders, and all managers in an organization. Role play is an educational technique and is used for human relations, leadership training, interpersonal skills in general organizational setting such as communication, sales training, performance appraisal, counseling, mentoring and team building. They are used in specific setting such as health care and social service where participants take on the roles of workers, clients and others in those setting.