IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

 

IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

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Training: Training is giving to the employee for the specific purpose and task. Training is giving for the short period of time. It is an act to increase the skills and knowledge of the employee for the required purpose or task. (Sommerville, 2007) To enhance the knowledge and skills of employees to operate the task which is set by organization.

Development: It is a program of different combination of training. Development is designed to improve the quality and performance of present managers and provide growth for present as well as future requirements and need.

Now a days in the global environment training and development is become very important as compare to the earlier time. The term training is become popular in several organization. Training and development agree the employees to obtain new skills and knowledge and become more effective and productive for the organization.Training plays a positive role for the success of the organization. (Management, 2002) It this rapid changing work the need of training and development is become very essential for the effectiveness and efficiency of both workplace and the employee. Training become the opportunity to all the employees for increase the knowledge.The main drive of training is to enhancement the organization to attain its short and long term aims by adding worth to its human capital. Training shows a significant part in the growth of employee’s performance. Training is important for staffs because organizational success base on the good presentation of employees. Employees with access to training and development plans have the improvement over staffs in other businesses who are left to pursue training chances on their own. The training makes a helpful office.Employees who feel valued and defied through training opportunities may feel additional fulfilment to their careers.The organization that spend more in training and development mostly tends to have satisfied staffs.

Those employees who attend the more training and development program need less supervision and direction.Worker is observed as the leading feature of entire organization and their achievement and failure basically based on their enactment.Training is important for employees because organizational success base on the worthy performance of personnel. Employee’s performance greatest at that time they were well trained.

 Objectives of Training and Development:

1. Increased Productivity
2. Quality Improvement
3. Learning time Reduction
4. Safety First
5. Labor Turnover Reduction
6. Keeping yourself Updated with Technology
7. Effective Management

 1.Increased Productivity

For any company, keeping the productivity at its peak is as important as getting in new customers for business. Since even a slightest of the disturbance can take the business to the brink of huge losses. Moreover, to tackle with the immensely growing competition in the target market, it is important for one to increase the productivity of its workers while reducing the cost of production of the products.  So, that’s where the training comes as a savior of the company, jumps in the scenario and takes it out of the dangers bravely.

Training takes the current capabilities of the workers of a brand, polishes it and makes them learn and devise new and effective methods of doing the same thing, in a repeated manner. In other words, the training, if done in a proper way, can give your business a whole new look with a much powerful base as experienced workers at its core.

2.Quality Improvement

Improving the quality of the product is obviously one of the main objectives of training and development since it’s not like those times when customers weren’t such quality conscious. Today’s customer knows what’s better for him and what’s not. Simply said, those old methods of some sweet talk and business won’t work for much long, because once they know the reality behind the curtains through the services and products quality, they will leave the company as it is without giving it, even, a second thought.

Just think of it as if you and your competitor are competing for the same service with some difference in quality but at the same price, it is obvious that they will choose the one who is better at handling the task without any quality degradation. Even if your price is a little higher, then it is most likely the case that most of the customers will come to you.

 

3.Learning time Reduction

Keeping an eye on the learning capabilities of employees, and providing them the help which they need, can be highly beneficial in longer runs. This capability of theirs’ is what that determines how quickly an employee grabs the newly discovered fact and so, shape the future products on this discovery. The weaker the capability, the harder it is to learn. But this scenario can also be supported by the usage of proper learning material and experienced instructors who prefer real-life experience than cramming. So, reducing the learning time is also one of the main objectives of training and development.

 

4.Safety First

Safety of anyone, either he is a worker, an officer or even a customer, is not something that can be taken lightly, especially in cases, where one knows that even a minute mistake can even lead to life threats. Therefore, providing the knowledge, for using the equipment in a proper way and creating the life-friendly product, also belongs to one of the major objectives of training and development. The higher, the employees are better at handling equipment, the better it is both for the company and for the workers

 

5.Labor turnover Reduction

No business can flourish well while it is regularly turning over its workforce since it is obvious that every new workforce will require some time to understand the type of work, its principle and safety precautions, which lead to decreased productivity. Moreover, it also diminishes the feeling of self-confidence among the workers, and this really isn’t a good thing.

On the contrary, training ensures that the company doesn’t need to turn over its workforce again and again because it prepares the employees to face any situation which proves helpful in bringing in the feeling of workers. Therefore, the workforce feels safe and secure at a particular job.

 

6.Keeping oneself Updated with Technology

 Computers and mobile phones are the miracles of the past but the world of today is far more advanced than that. It’s time for latest technologies capable of connecting the world in just a blink of an eye. Now, earthlings are trying to reach far off planets to get information about the life force present there. Newer technologies are rolling in and we could continue to list it down but we haven’t got time for that.

Training and education to the employees keep them updated with the latest of the additions to the technologies, methods, techniques and processes. Since it also opens a new gateway for them to look for a way which is greater in productivity and efficiency but decreases the need of manual work immensely.

For example, spraying of pesticides and herbicides to keep the crop healthy and safe from invaders with the help of a hand pump is a lot more tiresome work than it would be with the help of a semi-automated machinery. But how can workers know that such a type of machinery is available in a market, which cuts the time needed in the matter of hours instead of days, without any update on what’s going on around the globe?

 

 7.Effective Management

 One of the primary objectives of training and development process is to give rise to a new and improved management which is capable of handling the planning and control without any serious problem. With the knowledge and experience gathered through training, acting as the guiding light for this newly shaped management, it lets them handle the tough decisions and confusing realities thus opening the way for bigger and better opportunities for business for the cause of the brand.

 

Finding:

The training and development are the main tool of the human resource management in the any organization. Most of the research shows that employees are agree that the training and development is a part of the organization effectiveness and furthermore that the organization success and efficiency both are increased by the employee’s skills. Training and development help in the growth of the organization. Training and development not only increased the skills and ability of the employees but also increase the efficiency of the organization and increase the relationship between the employees with the organization.

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