Wednesday, 10 December 2014

Staff/Employee Training and retraining

According to Edwin B. Flippo,
Training is an act of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job.  Training involves the development of skills that are necessary to perform a specific job.  Its purpose is to achieve a change in the behavior of those trained and to enable them to do their jobs better.

The reasons for training needs
i. Technology changing at a fast pace
ii. Quality conscious customers
iii. Greater productivity
iv. Stable workforce
v. Increased safety
vi. Better management

The various types of training
i Induction or orientation training
ii. Job training
iii. Apprenticeship training
iv. Internship training
v. Refresher training or retraining
vi. Training for promotion

Retraining is the process of providing training to employees who have
long been in the service of an organisation and have underwent training earlier.
Retraining becomes necessary when the knowledge and skills of employees
become obsolete due to rapid change in technology.

objectives of training.

i. To prepare workers for higher jobs by developing advanced skills in them.
ii. To make the workers handle materials and machinery efficiently.

on-the-job training
Under this method, the worker isgiven training at the workplace by his immediate supervisor.  It is suitable for imparting skills that can be learned in a relatively short period of time. It is based on the principle of ‘learning by doing’ in an actual work environment.

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