Title: The Importance of Training in an Organization
Abstract: AbstractThis paper is an attempt to study the importance of training in an organization. A very good training program is vital to the success of any business but surprisingly it is most often overlooked. Training is very important for organizational development and success. It is fruitful for the employers as well as the employees in an organization. If employee is trained well, he will become more efficient and productive.Keywords: Training, Importance, Development, Organization.IntroductionAn organization is a social unit of people that is structured and managed to meet a need or they come together to pursue collective goals. All the organizations have a management that defines the relations between functions and positions and subdivide and assign roles, responsibilities and authorities to perform defined tasks. An organization is defined by the element that is a part of it, its communication, its autonomy and its rules of action compared to outside events. By coordination and planned cooperation of the elements, the organization is able to solve tasks that lie beyond the abilities of the single element.Training can be defined as the acquisition of knowledge and competencies as a result of learning that relate to specific useful competencies. It has specific goals of improving one's capacity, capability, productivity and performance. Training is also needed to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout the working life. In an organization, once the selection of employees is done, training them for the specific tasks they have been assigned is of great importance. In fact, training is an important activity in many organizations.In today's dynamic business environment, job knowledge and skills to handle the continuously changing job contents need continuous upgradation and training has to be imparted continuously. It also becomes imperative to handle diverse situations and to deal with varied clients, customers, vendors, suppliers, colleagues, business partners. Training deals with developing attitudes which help the individuals to deal with different situation and people according to one's advantage.In the light of these diverse factors, training has become extremely important for organizations in maintaining its human resources at their peak performance levels.Objectives of TrainingTraining is a learning experience that is planned and carried out by the organization to enable more skilled task behaviour by the training. It imparts the ability to detect and correct errors. Furthermore it provides skills and abilities that may be called upon in the future to satisfy the organizations human resource needs.* Training enables the employees to deal with the changing jobs and roles.* Training develops knowledge, skill and attitude for handling jobs most efficiently.* Training bridges the gap between the current level of employee KSA (Knowledge, Skill, Attitudes) and the required level of KSA to handle the job efficiently.* Training is job related and need based.Training can be seen as a part of total organizational commitment. Training needs can be recognised on the basis of analysis of environmental demands, processes of internal change, analysis of the work problems and analysis of manpower competencies of an organization. Training need occurs whenever an identifiable change takes place in the environment of procedures, processes and methods of work. Management of change would require orienting and training the people to the new demands, techniques, skills and adjustment to situations that would be required.The training needs caused by such changes can be put as technological changes, environmental changes, legislative changes and manpower composition changes. Accordingly there could be three types of training needs: Organizational, Professional and Individual.Determination of Training Needs involves the collection of data on both the current situation within the organization and its actual requirements. …
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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