...Journals Inc. (USA) Print ISSN: 0975-5853 Impact of Training and Development on Organizational Performance By Raja Abdul Ghafoor Khan, Furqan Ahmed Khan, Dr. Muhammad Aslam Khan University of Lahore, Islamabad Pakistan Abstracts - Training and Development, On the Job Training, Training Design and Delivery style are four of the most important aspects in organizational studies. The focus of current study is to understand the affect of Training and Development, On the Job Training, Training Design and Delivery style on Organizational performance. The back bone of this study is the secondary data comprised of comprehensive literature review. Four Hypotheses are developed to see the Impact of all the independent variables on the overall Organizational Performance. The Hypotheses show that all these have significant affect on Organizational Performance. These Hypotheses came from the literature review and we have also proved them with the help of literature review. Results show that Training and Development, On the Job Training, Training Design and Delivery style have significant affect on Organizational Performance and all these have positively affect the Organizational Performance. It means it increases the overall organizational performance. We also prove our Hypothesis through empirical data. However, results are strongly based on the literature review. Keywords : Training and Development, On the Job Training, Training Design, Delivery style, Organizational Performance. GJMBR-A...
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...TRAINING MEANING OF Training Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job. Training is a short-term educational process and utilizing a systematic and organized procedure by which employees learn technical knowledge and skills for a definite purpose. Importance of Training The importance of training and development to a larger extent depends on human resource development. Training is most important technique of human resource development. Training develops human skills and efficiency. Trained employees would be a valuable asset to an organization. Organizational efficiency, productivity, progress and development to a greater extent depend on training. Organizational objectives like viability, stability and growth can also be achieved through training. Human potential represents the greatest asset of any organization. Human potential, however, can only be considered an asset if it is consistently developed. Training and development are vital functions for any organization. The purpose of training is to impart knowledge and skills necessary to effectively fulfil the everyday operations of the organization. The purpose of development, on the other hand, is to enhance the use of the organization’s untapped, human potential. Increased productivity is directly related to the development of the organization’s untapped, human potential. Many organizations unwittingly spend a lot of money on training while ignoring development;...
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...organization. Moreover, the continuing prosperity of a firm is likely to be enhanced by employees who hold attitudes, value and expectations that are closely aligned with the corporate vision. HRM policies and practices can be strategically designed and installed to promote desirable employee outcomes, which include the enhancement of the in role and extra role behaviors of employees. Every organization is made up of people. Acquiring their services, developing their skills, motivating them to high levels of performance, and ensuring that they continue to maintain their commitment to the organization are essential to achieving organizational objectives. 1.2 Objectives of the study: (a) Broad Objective: To evaluate the training & development activities of steel industry and to identify the need and implementation of performance appraisal. Finding the ways of creating more effective appraisal and T & D system for KSRM is another objective. (b) Specific Objective: v How T& D is done in a big steel company like KSRM v How performance appraisal is done in KSRM v To identify the importance of T & D and appraisal in a company like KSRM v Identifying the problems that occurs during T & D and performance appraisal v To put forward some recommendation 1.3 Methodology: Data Collection For preparing this report data have been collected from both primary and secondary sources. Knowledge regarding different T&D operations and performance appraisal has been...
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...Figure 1. Concerns of Managers & Trainers in TNA Upper Level Managers Organizational Analysis Middle Level Managers Trainers Do I have the budget to buy training services? Will managers support training? Is training important Do I want to spend to achieve our money on training? business objectives? How much? How does training support our business strategy? Person Analysis What functions or business units need training? Does the organization have the people with the knowledge, skills, and ability need to compete? Who should be trained? Managers? Professionals? Core employees? For what jobs can training make the biggest difference in product quality or customer service? How will I identify which employees need training? What tasks should be trained? What knowledge, skills, ability, or other characteristics are necessary? Task Analysis TRAINING INITIATIVES AT GODREJ Phase 1: NEED FOR CHANGE • • • • • Entire distribution of Godrej transferred to P&G 1995-Break-up of the joint venture between Godrej & P&G Rebuilding exercise 1995-TQM workshop Switch from a family-run business to a professionally managed company • Changed the earlier model of management hierarchy • Adopted a participative management model – team spirit – employee improvement programmers. Phase 2: Design (Instructional Objectives) ● Total Quality Management (TQM) workshop: for all its 5000 employees to help them connect to their job. 2)Parivartan: to train new as well as...
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...Nature of Training and Development In simple words, training and development refers to the imparting of specific skills, abilities, knowledge to an employee. A formal definition of training and development is determined as follows: “It is any attempt to improve current or future employee performance by increasing an employee’s ability to perform through learning, usually by changing the employee’s attitude or increasing his or her skills and knowledge.” The need for training and development is determined by the employee’s performance deficiency, computed as follows: |Training and development needs = | |Standard performance – Actual performance | We can make a distinction among training, education and development. Such distinctions enables us to acquire a better perspective about the meaning if the term training. Which refers to the process of imparting specific skills, Education, on the other hand is confined theoretically learning in classroom To distinct more, the training is offered in case of operatives whereas development programs are conducted for employees at higher levels. Education however is common to all the employees. Inputs in Training and Development Any training and development programme must contain inputs which enable...
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...1. There is a growing recognition that the transfer of training is an increasingly significant issue amongst organisation’s today. The circumstances of transfer include the overview of knowledge and skills developed in training to do with the job and the preservation of the learning on the job (Saks & Belcourt, 2006). There are also factors to do with training input that can effect training outcomes and transfer including training design, trainee characteristics and work environment factors (Saks & Belcourt, 2006). Training design refers to the elements built into the training program to increase the chances that transfer of training will occur. Carlos designed a three-day communication program that included lectures, videos, exercises, and games, which taught active listening, upward communication, brainstorming and other areas (CS). Trainee characteristics include the ability, skills, motivation and personality factors of the trainee to transfer what they have learnt into work. This is where Carlos should have discussed and prepared employees to self-mange their use of new skills and behaviours on the job (Noe & Winkler, 2012 p. 181). Self management involves determining the degree of support and negative consequences in the work-setting, setting goals for using learned capabilities, applying learned capabilities, monitoring the use of learn capabilities, and engaging in self-reinforcement (Noe & Winkler, 2012 p. 181). Exposing trainees to the self-management...
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...Introduction ……………………………………………… P. 3 What are training and development .………………...…P. 4-5 Benefits of training and development ………….…………P. 6 Problems in training ………………………….……………P. 7 Managing the training process .………………………..P. 8-11 Conclusion…………………………………………………P. 12 Reference………………………..…………………………P. 13 Introduction Within the competitive world markets, today’s managers face greater challenges than ever before to maintain their position among the top economic powers. From a strategic prospective, employee training will become increasingly important during the 1990s because of the pressure to reduce costs and increase productivity. Many companies are finding that they can’t compete in the global market unless they boost productivity and invest in a better- trained and skilled workforce. Employee training is a key factor in improving levels of organization productivity. Therefore, it is important that the organization enable employees to upgrade their skills and knowledge to meet these changing conditions. Nowadays, any organization should adopt a systemic approach to training and development. Systemic training is that which is specifically designed to meet defined needs, followed by deciding what training is required to satisfy the needs. The next step is to find experience trainers to plan and implementing the program. Of course, follow up and evaluation is a must to ensure that it is effective. However, training programs can easily be irrelevant, out-dated...
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...are; Training and Development Organizational development Career development. Training and Development Training is the process of improving the knowledge, skills and attitudes of employees for the short term, particular to a specific job or a task e.g. Employee orientation Skills and technical training Coaching Counseling Development is preparing for future job responsibilities, while increasing the capacity to perform at a current job. e.g. Management training Supervisory development In the field of HRM, Training and development is the field concerned with organizational activity aimed at bettering the performance of individuals and groups in organizational setting, it has been known by several names including; employee development, leaning and development etc. Training and development encompasses three main activities. They are; Training, Education and Development. The principal objective of training and development divisions in to ensure the availability of a skilled and willing work force to an organization ensures that randomness is reduced and learning or behavioral change take place in structured format. Training and development offers competitive advantage to a firm by removing performance deficiencies, making employees stay long, minimized accidents and meeting future employee needs. 2.2 Training and HRD...
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...of training Training is an organized planned effort by a company in order to facilitate employees learning regrading job related competencies. These competencies include knowledge, skills and behaviors important for successful job performance. Goal of training programs for employees is mainly to master the knowledge, skill and behaviors and to apply them in their daily activities. In order to gain competitive advantage, a company should give training broadly as a method to create intellectual capital. Intellectual capital includes: Basic skills : Skills needed to perform employees job Advanced Skills: To use technology in order to share information with other employees. Understanding of customer or manufacturing system. Self motivated creativity The purpose of training is basically to bridge the gap between the job requirement and present competencies of an employee. According to Jucius Training is a process of acquiring specific skills to perform a job better. With the help of above definitions nature of training can be summarized as : It is a process of acquiring specific skills which enhances job performance. It is a process of teaching, informing or educating people. It provides required qualification to individuals in order to perform their job in a better way. It provides qualification to employees so that they can perform in positions of greater difficulty and responsibility. It is and act of increasing knowledge and skills. Objectives of training After...
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...1. Introduction: Training can be introduced simply as a process of assisting a person for enhancing his efficiency and effectiveness to a particular work area by getting more knowledge and practices. Also training is important to establish specific skills, abilities and knowledge to an employee. For an organization, training and development are important as well as organizational growth, because the organizational growth and profit are also dependent on the training. But the training is not a core of organizational development. It is a function of the organizational development. Training is different form education; particularly formal education. The education is concerned mainly with enhancement of knowledge, but the aims of training are increasing knowledge while changing attitudes and competences in good manner. Basically the education is formulated within the framework and to syllabus, but the training is not formed in to the frame and as well as syllabus. It may differ from one employee to another, one group to another, even the group in the same class. The reason for that can be mentioned as difference of attitudes and skills from one person to another. Even the situation is that, after good training program, all different type skilled one group of employees can get in to similar capacity, similar skilled group. That is an advantage of the trainings. In the field of Human Resources Management, Training and Development is the field concern with...
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...Note: ---This Project is made with the help of internet and some other books. This is not linked with any organization. This project will help the students to make their assignments and projects. (www.projects99.com) TABLE OF CONTENTS |CHAPTER |TITLE |PAGE NO | | |ACKNOWLEDGEMENT |Ii | | |ABSTRACT |iii | | |LIST OF TABLES |iv | | |LIST OF CHARTS |v | | I |INTRODUCTION |1 | | |Profile of Organization |8 | |II |REVIEW OF LITERATURE |16 | |III |OBJECTIVES |18 | |IV |RESEARCH METHODOLOGY ...
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...Designing an Active Training Sales Program for Wellbridge Clubs Sales Staff Dawnita Blackmon-Mosely Tiaunna Connelly Elizabeth Davis Jesus Elias Jaimi Faux Michael Morris Rodney Ulibarri Webster University Abstract The purpose of this project was to develop a training program for Wellbridge Clubs that focused on teaching sales staff to sell personal training (PT) packages to members, in order to increase Wellbridge sales. The training agenda was designed based on Silberman’s (2006) Active Training, in order to engage the participants in their learning process. The use of immediate learning exercises is intended to draw the participants into the process of guided note taking during the brain-friendly lectures. Through headlines and graphical associations, organized information is presented that is more easily retained. Role-playing scenarios solidify newly acquired information, and action planning provides an opportunity to prepare the participants for on-the-job application. These techniques were chosen because they provide the best option for active involvement of the participants, and thus, their attainment and retention of skill. Keywords: Wellbridge, personal training, active training, human capital Designing an Active Training Sales Program for Wellbridge Clubs Sales Staff Wellbridge Clubs is a fitness management company that was founded in 1983 in Denver, Colorado (Wellbridge Clubs, 2014). Through the operation of 19 athletic clubs nationwide, Wellbridge...
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...TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT BY DR HAZEL GACHUNGA TRAINING PROCESS Today companies are taking training seriously due to the deeply held value that successful companies are the ones that take the training of their people seriously. Continuous improvement in process has meant that new technologies are being used and so people need the skills to operate these. Again skills are getting outdated very quickly because requirements are getting stringent and changing by the day. Organizations are facing fierce competition, which is accelerating the pace of change. Flatter organization structures coupled with technology help people to take on more work and greater spans of control. This structure can only be effective if the workforce is highly motivated, trained and educated. Alignment Training must be aligned with a company’s business direction and values. Training philosophy Expresses the degree of importance the company attaches to training. Training philosophy should be based on: 1) Strategic approach to training Takes a long-term view of what skills, knowledge and level of competence employees need. 2) Relevant 3) Problem – based 4) Action – action oriented 5) Continuous development Missions The training philosophy should be guided by the mission of the organization The mission should be communicated to all Example of a Training Department’s...
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...Selecting a Training Method Prerequisite of selecting a particular training method a. Cost of the method b. The number of individuals to be trained c. The location d. The availability of trainees, training rooms, and training technology e. The skill and preferences of the trainer and the instructional designer f. Trainee preferences expectations likely reactions. Some critical concept of selecting a training method a. Reactions to training content and methods very across cultures, so training that will be presented in overseas locations requires special considerations. b. The most important criteria in selecting a training method is its match with the training content. c. The methods chosen must convey needed information and allow trainees to engage in the appropriate type and amount of practice for the skills they one trying to learn. d. Adult learners need variety and involvement. So methods should be as active as possible. E-learning E-learning methods include training delivered by * CD-ROM * Intranet or inter satellite broadcasts * Virtual classrooms * Digital collaboration between trainees Advantages of E-learning * Training can be conducted at remote or international sites * Training is available on demand, when needed or when the work schedule permits * Costs for...
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...Practical work is an integral part of BBA Program in Islamia University of Bahawalpur. Keeping in view the importance of practical work, The Department Of Management Sciences provides its students an opportunity to learn something practical along with theoretical knowledge. During 6th semester BBA, students are given the assignment to write the Literature review. This is a part of Subject of Human Resource Management. It is a great pleasure for us to complete this task under supervision of our respectable teacher Mr. Hassan Danial Aslam Acknowledgement It is our first and foremost duty to thank almighty Allah, Who blessed us with an opportunity to accomplish this uphill task. Nothing is possible without the will and wish of Allah, so we are very thankful to Him for His help. It would not be out of place to cordially thank our supervisor Mr. Hassan Danial Aslam whose expertise and vision continues to be a great source of due encouragement and inspiration. His vivid guidance and well versed advice in the preparation of grim documentation of this Literature review went a long way in its printing. A word of thanks also goes to the authorities of the all our team members who greatly co-operated with each other and for their unfailing support during the long days when we all were shackled to our computer keyboards. Although .we had tried to avoid as many mistakes as possible in this project work but still omissions...
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