Training Type HR.

TYPES OF TRAINING

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Introduction

Training

• A planned program designed to

improve performance and to bring

about measurable changes in

knowledge, skills, attitude and

social behavior of employees for

doing a particular job.

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• Training aims to develop potential knowledge and skills of the employee to carry out defined task and responsibilities.

• Training is short term process.

• Training is necessary to prepare existing employees for higher level jobs.

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Objectives of training

• To impart basic knowledge and skill to the fresher to perform the job efficiently.

• To equip the employee to meet the changing requirement of the job and the organization.

• To teach the employees the new techniques and ways of performing the job or operations.

• To prepare employees for higher level tasks.

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Objectives Contd…

• Facilitates achievement of Organization's objectives and mission.

• Improve health and safety• Obsolescence Prevention• Personnel Growth• Increase Productivity• Improve Quality

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Training -Benefits

• Organizational

• Individual

• Personnel and Human Relations

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Areas of training

• Knowledge

• Technical skills

• Social skills

• Techniques

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Types of Training• Skills training• Technical skills training• Refresher training• Cross-functional training• Team training• Creativity training• Diversity training• Literacy training• Ethics training

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Skills training

• Most common in all organizations• Process is fairly simple• Skills training is done for basic

skills

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Needs for skills training• Reading• Writing • Computing• Speaking• Listening• Problem solving• Knowing how to learn• Managing oneself• Working as a part of a team• Leading others etc…

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Methods of skills training

• Lectures

• Apprenticeship

• On-the-job

• Coaching etc…

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Cross-functional

Training• Training employees to perform

operations in areas other than their assigned job.

• Job rotation can be used for cross functional training

Job rotation

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Benefits

• Employees get rich experience in diverse jobs

• They become more adaptable and versatile

• They can better reengineer their career paths

• They understand how others are able to perform under different set of constraints

• Need for supervision is needed• Flexible scheduling can be done

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Team TrainingTeam training throws light on:

• How members should communicate

with each other• How they have to cooperate and get

ahead• How they should deal with conflictful

situations• How they should find their way, using

collective wisdom

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Team training covers two areas:

• Content tasks• Group processes

• Content tasks- specify the team’s goals such as cost control and problem solving

• Group processes- reflect the way members function as a team

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Refresher training

• Rapid changes in technology causes refresher training.

Eg:- computerization in an organization.

• Short term courses are conducted for refresher training

• Training is done at regular intervals• Training is conducted by outside

consultants or specialists.

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Creativity training

Creativity training focus on three

things:

• Breaking away

• Generate new ideas

• Delaying judgement

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Breaking away-

• identify the dominant ideas

influencing his own thinking

• define the boundaries within which he

is working

• bring the assumptions out into the

open and challenge everything

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Generate new ideas-

• trainee should open his mind

• look at the problem from all the

possible angles

• list as many alternative approaches

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Delaying judgement-

To promote creative thinking,

• Trainee should not kill off ideas too

quickly

• Generate as many ideas as possible

• Allow ideas to grow a little

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Diversity Training• Diversity training considers all of the

diverse dimensions in the workplace-

race, gender, age, disabilities, lifestyles,

culture, education, ideas and

backgrounds- while designing a training

programme.

• It aims to create better cross cultural

sensitivity.

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• It aims to create more harmonious and

fruitful working relationship among

firm’s employees.

• The program cover two things

i. Awareness building: helps employees

appreciate the key benefit of diversity

ii.Skills building: offers the knowledge,

skills and abilities required for working

with people having varied backgrounds.

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Literacy Training• Aims to improve reading, writing,

speaking and arithmetic skills.

• Focuses on lower level employees.

• Literacy training focus on the basic

skills required to perform a job

adequately and capitalize on most

worker’s motivation to get help in

particular area

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Literacy training programs

• Tutorial programs

• Home assignments

• Reading and writing exercises

• Simple mathematical tests etc…

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Ethics training• Helps to establish ethical values.

• This training is included in a newly

hired employee’s orientation program.

• Part of an ongoing developmental

training program

• Provided to all employees as a periodic

reinforcement of ethical principles.

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Conclusion:Training can include everything from

teaching employees basic reading skills

to conducting advanced courses in

executive leadership.

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References:

Websites:• www.wikipedia.com• www.explorehr.com• www.mindtools.com

Books:• Human resources management, VSP

Rao • Organizational behavior,

Stephen.P.Robbins, Timothy.A.Judge, Seema Sanghi

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