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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

TRAINING:

"Training is the process of increasing the knowledge and skills for doing a particular job"

 Aim of training is improving the behavior and performance of a person.

EDUCATION:

Education is theoretical learning in classrooms. It refers to formal instruction in a school or college.

It is very difficult to differentiate between education and training because in many cases both occur simultaneously.

COMPARISON BETWEEN EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

POINT OF COMPARISON EDUCATION TRAINING

Content and scope Broad & general Narrow & specific job related

Nature Theoretical Practical

Duration Long duration Short duration

Result Delayed Quick

DEVELOPMENT:

"It refers to the learning opportunities designed to help employees grow"

 An effort to provide employees with the abilities the organization will need in the future.

POINT OF COMPARISON TRAINING

DEVELOPMENT

Contents Technical & Mechanical operations Conceptual

Participants Non-managerial personnel Managerial personnel

Time period Short term Long term

Purpose Specific Job related skills Total Personality

Initiative From management external motivation From individual him self internal motivation

Nature of the process To meet current needs To meet future needs

Need for training:

1. Newly Selected Employees:

 Newly selected employee's qualification & skills not sufficient to do the job, so training is necessary to them.

2. Orientation to New Employees:

 Orientation training to new employees which is more helpful to them for understand the organization culture, job condition and colleagues.

3. Purpose of Promotion:

 Purpose of Promotion and new assignments for existing employees. They can easily overcome the difficulties of new job

4. Technological changes:

 Training is very essential when a company change its operations from manual to automation.

 Now a day's technology is changing very fast, so it requires training in to the new technology.

5. Competition:

 Increasing economic liberalization and globalization is the result of increasing competition in Indian firms. I order to face international competition firms must upgrade their capabilities.(global competition )

 Existing employees need refresher training to keep them up to date with new knowledge.

 Trained staff is the most valuable asset of a company.

Types of training:

1. Orientation training:

 The main motive of this training is to make newly appointed employees familiar with his job, his superiors, subordinates and rules and regulations of the organization.

 It creates self-confidents to employees.

 It is known as pre-job training.

2. Job training:

 It increases skills and knowledge of an employee for improving better performance on the job.

 It helps to reduce accidents, wastages and inefficiency in the job performance.

3. Safety training:

 Training provided to minimize accidents and damages to machinery is known as safety training.

 It provides information about the safety devices and methods.

4. Promotion training:

 Potential employees are select and provide training to them before their promotion.

 They can easily overcome the difficulties of new job

5. Refresher training:

 Refresher training is design to revive and refresh the knowledge and to update the skills of the existing employees.

TRAINING PROCESS:

Identifying the training needs:

1. All activities must be related to the specific needs of the organization and the individual employees.

2. The effectiveness of a training program can be judged only with the help of training needs identified in advance.

Who identifies training needs?

 The line managers, first they identify a need in their own staff.

 Individual employees can also identify areas where they require training and development.

Methods for the identification of training and development needs:

1. Performance reviews:

 Employee