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 Training and development of employees

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Introduction

Training and development in Human Resource Management (HRM) can be explained as a system of educating employees within a company. It includes various tools, instructions, and activities designed to improve employee performance. It's an opportunity for employees to increase their knowledge and upgrade their skills and is often seen as a planned and systematic process of learning in a sense. of acquiring, modifying, and/or developing knowledge, skills, and abilities. 

Importance of Training and Development in Employee Performance?

Companies often take a decision to roll out a training and development program after identifying a specific need in the organization. The need could be introduction of new skill or to update the existing skills of the employee. In the case of employees working on higher level the training and development program is introduced to improve the behavior skills and ensure team work in the organization.

Objective and Purpose of Training & Development,

1. One of the most effective methods to show your employees that you value them is to provide them with training. It demonstrates that you care as much about their well-being and development as they do about your company's. Employees that are well taken care of will never desire to work somewhere else.
2. Training can be used as a preventative measure to prepare people for expected and unforeseen changes and challenges in the workplace. It only makes sense to keep our staff prepared in times like ours, when trends are always changing due to online innovation.
3. There is no better way to produce future leaders than to train the most talented individuals available. Employees will have a clear career path, resulting in lower attrition and discontent.
4. Employees are a significant and most important component of a company's assets, and caring for them entails caring for the firm as a whole.  Therefore, any business organization that invests their time and money in its employees' education or Training & development can only succeed in achieving their business goals and advance further.

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Training Methods

There exist different types of training methods used by the organization based on the goals and objectives of the training and development program. Here are few commonly used training methods in corporate world-

• Orientations: It is generally used to introduce the newly joined employee to the organizational work culture. It includes few lecture sessions, meetings with supervisor and information regarding the history of the organization. This training is used to make sure the newcomer feels welcomed in the organization and become aware about their work profile, goals and objectives of organization, policies as well as rules and regulations to be followed.
• Lectures: This is a one-way communication method, mostly used when important information has to be conveyed to large number of employees. The information can be related to new updates in policies or any change management action in the organization.
• Case Study: Here the participants are given a situation in terms of case study and they have to provide solutions on the stated problem in the provided case. It is a best way to impart decision making skill and sharpen the judgment skills of the employee.
• Role Playing: A scenario is created and each participant is assigned a particular role to play out. The participant can practice their actual job work using role play method. The facilitator provides immediate feedback to the participant which helps them to improve their performance. These kinds of scenario are very effective while providing marketing and management training.
• Simulations: It can be used as a kind of games created from real-life scenarios. The benefits of this simulations is that employee gets better understanding of whole organizational structure and can study actual day-to-day problems to get a relevant solutions on it.
• Computer-Based Training: The employees are provided study material and instruction on the computer. It allows employees to learn on their own pace and time.
• Self-Instruction: Individualized instruction, programmed learning, personalized systems of instruction, correspondence study and learner-controlled instruction are different types of self-instruction training. Here employees are responsible for their own learning.
• Audiovisual Training: In this type of training films, television, and videotapes are used to expose employees to the real-life situation. The presentation includes the situation and how the problem stated in the situation is resolved. It helps the employee to gain knowledge about diverse corporate situations and provides them an appropriate direction to take decisions.
• Team-Building Exercises: The training is associated with human behavior. It includes activities that can improve group dynamics and worker-management relations. It can be in the form of outdoor exercise or brainstorming sessions in the office.
• Apprenticeships and Internships: It is a kind of on-the-job training in which the newly joined employee works with the experienced employee and learns work-related skills while performing the actual job.
• Job Rotation:  In order to enhance the understanding about the whole organization and to add skills the job rotation method of training is used. Here employees do different types of job on rotational basis and gain knowledge of different work profile.

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Types of Training and Development

1. Technical training - Teaches new employees about the technology components of their jobs.
2. Quality training - This is the process of familiarizing personnel with the methods for preventing, identifying, and removing non-quality goods in a manufacturing environment.
3. Skill Training - which involves developing the ability to execute the job.
4. Soft skills training - This is to improve the employee’s soft skills which are personality traits, social graces, communication skills, and personal routines that are used to define interpersonal interactions.
5. Professional training - a sort of professional education necessary to stay current in one's line of work.

What are the Benefits of Training and Development in HRM?

• Having staff training and development boosts work satisfaction and morale.
• Employee turnover can be reduced.
• Inspires employees to work harder.
• Improves efficiency, resulting in financial benefit.
• Adoption of new technology and processes.
• Increases strategy and product innovation.

Summary

Knowledge and skills are crucial to every company nowadays. Firms are evaluated based on their physical structure and intellectual capital. The easiest way to develop and improve a firm’s intellectual capital is to conduct regular training and development programs.

Also, supporting untrained employees costs the organization more than it would if it employed well-trained individuals. Other perks of employee training and development include improvements in employee performance, boosting company reputation, and addressing weak links in the organization

References:

HR help board (2023)Training and Development Process [online]Available at https://www.hrhelpboard.com/training-development/training-and-development-process.htm.

[Accessed on 27th April 2023]

CFI team (2022 ) Employee Training and Development [online]Available at https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/management/employee-training-and-development/.[Accessed on 27th April 2023]

Ana Poula (2019) Training and Development in Organizations: Start at the Beginning [online]

Availableathttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/289469813_Training_and_Development_in_Organizations_Start_at_the_Beginning [Accessed on 27th April 2023]