Employee Training and Development
Organizations aim to be successful through distinguished plans, services, competences, and products. However, such elements need to be envisioned, developed, implemented, and sustained by well-trained individuals.
Though employee training and development could be a challenging task for many leaders, most of the organizations are investing significant amount towards the employee training and development activities.
These investments on employee training and development comprises diverse content areas, such as mandatory, compliance, managerial, supervisory, executive development, customer services, sales, interpersonal skills, and others.
Training and Development Theorized
Training and development is a function within Human Resources management used to fulfill the gaps between current and expected performance (Elnaga & Imran, 2013; Nassazi, 2013).
According to Business Dictionary (training, n.d.), training is an “organized activity aimed at imparting information and/or instructions to improve the recipient's performance or to help him or her attain a required level of knowledge or skill.”
Training is planned and systematic activities which are focused on enhancing the level of skills, knowledge, and competency (Nassazi, 2013).
Purposes of Training and Development
Employee training and development
occurs at different levels of the organization and helps individuals in
attaining diverse goals.
According to Elnaga and Imran (2013), this effort assists individuals in decreasing their anxiety or frustration encountered in the workplace.
When a task is not properly performed and the end results are not perceived as expected, the individual may not feel motivated to keep performing (Asim, 2013).
Individuals who are not able to perform at the expected level of performance may even decide to leave the organization, because they feel they are not productive and become dissatisfied with their job.
For this reason, employee training
and development serves as the tool that not only enhances the
competencies required to perform a job, but it also provides the
means to assist individuals in feeling more satisfied with the results
of their performance. Enhanced competencies lead to better performance and
retention.
Benefits of Training and Development
The following are common benefits of
employee training and development, according to Nassazi (2013):
(1) It increases employees’ morale, confidence,
and motivations.
(2) It lowers production costs because
individuals are able to reduce waste.
(3) It promotes a sense of security
which in turn reduces turnover and absenteeism.
(4) It increases employees’ involvement
in the change process by providing the competencies necessary to adjust to new
and challenging situations.
(5) It opens the doors for
recognition, higher pay, and promotion.
(6) It helps the organization in
improving the availability and quality of its staff
Individual
Benefits:
Training and development
programs help individuals in learning the soft, functional, and technical
skills necessary to perform their jobs.
They achieve higher level
of job satisfaction, because they feel they are investing in their own future.
They feel that their role
within the organization has a real purpose. Since the individuals’ loyalty
tends to increase substantially, they invest more of their time and effort in
achieving the bottom line for the organization.
Individuals tend to
proactively seek opportunities to acquire innovative skills, to experience
diverse roles and responsibilities, and to look for additional personal and
professional development.
Such tendencies increase
their confidence, self-esteem, and job gratification. Training and development enhance
the overall performance of individuals.
Organizational
Benefits:
Training and development
programs assist organizations in staying competitive in the marketplace.
According to Wanger (as
cited by Jehanzeb and Bashir, 2013), the American Society for Training and
Development (now called the Association for Talent Development) found that
there is a relationship between financing in employee training and development
programs and higher revenues from stock market.
As a result, training and
development programs help organizations in retaining their talent, differentiating
themselves against other organizations, improving their appearance as best
employer in the job market, and increasing the overall organizational
effectiveness.
References
Elnaga, A., & Imran, A. (2013). The Effect of Training on Employee Performance. European Journal of Business and Management, 5(4), 137-147
Nassazi, N. (2013). Effects of training on employee performance: Evidence from Uganda (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). University of Applied Sciences, Vassa, Finland
Asim, M. (2013). Impact of motivation on employee performance with effect of training: Specific to education sector of Pakistan. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 3(9), 1-9
Jehanzeb, K., &
Bashir, N. A. (2013). Training and development program and its benefits to
employee and organization: A conceptual study. European Journal of Business and
Management, 5(2), 243-252
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The Human Resources Development department is devoted to improving the organization's human resources. Employees are typically motivated, and training and development programs strengthen their organizational commitment.
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