...Gung Ho Training in Organization Need Assessment, Development, and Evaluation Peer Shmelzer-Moratin MGMT 3441 HPU Term 2 2012 Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film's story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation. While it might seem like just another fun movie to watch on a Friday night, it is actually a great movie with great lesson to teach to those who underestimate the power of training. Training is defined as the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved performance in another environment (Goldstein 1). The above movie is great example of how training can lead to much better results and performance. Irwin Goldstein, a leader in the training field, teams up with Kevin Ford and wrote "Training in Organization” to provide readers with a framework for examining and establishing viable training programs in education, business, and government. Capturing the excitement of training research and systems issues, the author discusses training as it occurs in real organizations. In their book they present different types of training programs and their effectiveness, ways in which training needs to be assessed and evaluated. With today’s technology the concern for utilizing training systems and developing new ones increase. Trainers are struggling with how to work with teams. The movie Gung Ho presents...
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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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...Objective The objective of this report is to focus on the concept Training and Development in HRM” and examines in more detail some of the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of Training and Development strategies in HRM followed by a critical review on the evidence based around what impact it has had in practice in terms of promoting and enhancing business performance. While we cannot ignore the importance of HRM theories in today’s management context, this paper explores whether these theories work well in practice. Introduction The key purpose of HRM is to enable management to enhance the individual and collective contributions of people to the short and long term success of the enterprise. (Personnel Management Lead Body, 1993) The workplace is in a constant state of change resulting from ongoing developments in technology and innovation and increasing economic, social and political pressures. This poses new and complex challenges for the human resources function within organisations. (Hathorn, 2012: 3). In today’s competitive global business climate, companies looking to improve their gross margins and increase productivity are increasingly looking for ways to boost employee performance and effectiveness. People in an organization are considered to be one of the most valuable resources of today’s firms. Other resources such as brands, products, processes, technological advancement, economies of scale can still provide a competitive advantage but an organisation’s...
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...high performing organisations today recognise the need to use the best training and development practices to increase their competitive advantage. Training and development is a crucial aspect of every business, if the value and potential of its people is to be exploited. According to Fitzgerald (2002) “training is a process that entails the acquisition of knowledge, sharpening of skills, concepts, rules, or changing of attitudes and behaviours to enhance the performance of employees.” McNamara (2010) agrees that training is an educational process, further adding that it involves the presentation and learning of content as a means for enhancing skill development and improving workplace behaviours. To add more onto this, learning is a lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviours, and attitudes. It could be described as a process whereby experience results in behaviour changes (Rogers, 2003). Lastly, development is a framework that helps employees broaden their personal and interpersonal skills, knowledge and abilities (Heathfield, 2011). It includes such factors as employee training, career development, mentoring and organisational development. It is pointed out by (Heathfield, 2011; Rogers...
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...THE IMPACT OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ON WORKER PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY IN PUBLIC SECTOR ORGANIZATIONS: A CASE STUDY OF GHANA PORTS AND HARBOURS AUTHORITY By Irene Ferguson Laing (BSc. ADMIN. HRM) A Thesis submitted to the Institute of Distance Learning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of COMMONWEALTH EXECUTIVE MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Institute of Distance Learning-KNUST June, 2009 1 DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is my own work towards the CEMBA and that, to the best of my knowledge, it contains no material previously published by another person nor material which has been accepted for the award of any other degree of the university, except where due acknowledgement has been made in the text. 2 DEDICATION I dedicate this work to my mother Miss Margaret Yankson for her love and encouragement. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Foremost, I am grateful to God for seeing me through my years of University education. I dedicate this work to God Almighty. He has been the wind beneath my wings. His Grace and Mercy has brought me thus far and I am grateful. My deepest appreciation and thanks go to my supervisor, Mr. Jude T. Adjoe for his guidance and constructive criticisms that helped me stay focused from the beginning of this work to the end. I am highly indebted to Mr. Stanislaus Friday Keh, Director of Friskeh Company Ltd. for his unwavering support...
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...MANAGEMENT. Instructor: DR. MTEY Name: ALLY MIRROW Mobile: 0717/0756-782834 QUESTION TWO (a) What contribution does training and development provide in the effort to improve performance? (b) Why should managers prefer administering a training needs assessment before embarking on training as a solution to performance problems? TABLE OF CONTENT 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Concept of Training and Development 2.0 Contribution of Training and Development 2.1 It helps to increase productivity of the employees 2.2 It helps in increasing the job knowledge and skills of employees at each level 2.3 It helps in inculcating the sense of team work, team spirit, and inter-team collaborations. 2.4 It leads to improved profitability and more positive attitudes towards profit orientation. 2.5 It helps in increasing job satisfaction. 2.6 It helps to greater productivity and quality. 2.7 It helps in improving the morale of the work force 2.8 Lead to the less scrap or spoiled work and less accident. 3.0 Concept of training need assessment 4.0 Why prefer Training need assessment? 4.1 It helps to identify the gap between employees and job requirement 4.2 It enables to find out which employees and group will need training. 4.3 It helps to understand the requirement of the training (Present or future) 4.4 It helps to assess the cost and benefit of the training. 4.5 It helps to pinpoint where and how relevant information will be collected 4.6 It helps to identify who will be responsible...
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...Employee Training and Career Development Employment Development and Career Training This world is filled with choices and knowing the meaning behind those choices has become a hard pill to swallow for some people. For one, the knowledge of the roles in training an organization helps along the lines of gaining information about the company and understanding the need the HRM takes to hire, maintain, and fire employees. The role of training an employee is a matter of both the manager and employee discuss the movement in which the employee wishes to go. The Manager’s job is to make training available for the employee to succeed. The difference between employee development and organization development are not that far apart. As the organization seek training to move the company forward, employee training seeks to move the employee forward as well. One is a bigger picture and the other is a smaller picture of the same goals. Role of training in an organization The organization and the training office will work closely together depending on the direction of the company. In the beginning it is important for the employee to possess the necessary talent in order to compete for a position. Training the new employee on the job function will be the responsibility of the training office of the organization. The next level of training would consist of training the employees for expansion. If a company develops a new system or bring in a new product the employee...
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...www.thetimes100.co.uk How training and development supports business growth Introduction Tesco is the largest British retailer and is also the world’s third largest grocery retailer with outlets across Europe, USA and Asia. The business began in 1919 with one man, Jack Cohen, selling groceries from a stall in the East End of London. Jack bought surplus stocks of tea from a company called T.E. Stockwell. T.E. Stockwell and Cohen combined their names to brand the tea Cohen originally sold – TESCO tea. In 1929, the first Tesco store opened in north London. Tesco has expanded since then by a combination of acquisition of new stores, retail services and by adapting to the needs of consumers. Tesco has net profits (before tax) of around £3 billion. Tesco’s primary aim is ‘to serve the customer’. Keeping existing customers happy is important, as they are more likely to return. This is more cost effective for the business than acquiring new ones. In the UK Tesco now has over 2,200 stores ranging from the large Extra hypermarket style stores to small Tesco Express high street outlets. Tesco’s original product range of grocery and general merchandise has diversified to include banking, insurance services, electrical goods as well as telephone equipment and airtime. This move towards ‘one stop shopping’ means customers can meet all their purchasing needs from one place. Tesco has also expanded its customer base through its Tesco.com website which attracts one million regular users....
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...32184_TESCO:TESCO STUDY V6 23/6/09 16:11 Page 1 How training and development supports business growth Introduction Tesco is the largest British retailer and is also the world’s third largest grocery retailer with outlets across Europe, USA and Asia. The business began in 1919 with one man, Jack Cohen, selling groceries from a stall in the East End of London. Jack bought surplus stocks of tea from a company called T.E. Stockwell. T.E. Stockwell and Cohen combined their names to brand the tea Cohen originally sold – TESCO tea. In 1929, the first Tesco store opened in north London. Tesco has expanded since then by a combination of acquisition of new stores, retail services and by adapting to the needs of consumers. Tesco has net profits (before tax) of around £3 billion. Tesco’s primary aim is ‘to serve the customer’. Keeping existing customers happy is important, as they are more likely to return. This is more cost effective for the business than acquiring new ones. In the UK Tesco now has over 2,200 stores ranging from the large Extra hypermarket style stores to small Tesco Express high street outlets. Tesco’s original product range of grocery and general merchandise has diversified to include banking, insurance services, electrical goods as well as telephone equipment and airtime. This move towards ‘one stop shopping’ means customers can meet all their purchasing needs from one place. Tesco has also expanded its customer base through its Tesco.com...
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...ISSN 2161-7104 2011, Vol. 1, No. 2 Training and Development Strategy and Its Role in Organizational Performance Abdus Sattar Niazi (Corresponding Author) MS Scholar, Iqra University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan Ph: +92 302 8500 777, Email: a.niazi55@hotmail.com Received: August 01, 2011 Accepted: August 11, 2011 DOI: 10.5296/jpag.v1i2.862 Abstract In the FMCG industry at global level, the business environment has changed with intense pressure on organizations, to become ‘Learning Organizations’ and stay ahead of their competitions by bringing innovation/reinvention in training and development strategy while emphasizing on planning, designing, implementing and evaluating the training programs. Carry out an analysis that the objective of training and development is to create learning organizations which ensure that employees through value addition can effectively perform their jobs, gain competitive advantage and seek self growth: this measurable performance resulting from good training and development, shall enhance organizational performance. Keywords: Training and Development, Strategy, FMCG, Organizational Performance 42 www.macrothink.org/jpag Journal of Public Administration and Governance ISSN 2161-7104 2011, Vol. 1, No. 2 1. Introduction The objectivity of training and development and its continued learning process has always been leverage with the FMCG industry and now it has become rather an over arching trend of social needs, emphasizing that organizations must...
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...Report on “How I assess the training & development issues/needs of an Organization?” Prepared by : Supervised by & submitted to: Nazia Tazreen ID 2010010002014 Tazreen Rahman Md. Rasel Bhuyan ID 2011010004081 Course Teacher Abeda Awwal ID 2010110001061 Training & Development Kaniz Fatema ID 2010110001080 Mahajabin Begum ID 2010110001070 Program : MBA (THIS REPORT IS SUBMITTED FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION WITH A MAJOR IN HRM) 13 December 2011 Tazreen Rahman Course Teacher (Training & Development) Southeast University Dhaka Campus Subject: Submission of Report Dear Madam, With a pleasure, I would like to submit my internship report entitled “How I assess the training & development issues/needs of an Organization?” in connection of my practical experience in Bestway Group I have tried my level best to expose it’s “training & development issues/needs assessment” through collecting various significant information of Bestway Group. I hope you would kindly accept the report considering my unintentional mistakes in preparing of the report. Thanking You Sincerely Yours, ______________________ Nazia Tazreen & Group MBA Program Southeast University Dhaka Campus. |Content Name | |Page No. | |First Phase: Training & Development Process ...
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...KSHIRSAGAR AND DR. N. R. MADHAVI FOR GIVING US THE GUIDANCE IN OUR PROJECT. INDEX SR. NO | TOPIC | 1 | Meaning Of Training and Development | 2 | Concept Of Training | 3 | Training and Development Program Purpose, Objective and Goals | 4 | Important Advantages Of Training | 5 | Principle | 6 | Methods Of Training and Development | 7 | Step In Training Process | 8 | Training Process | 9 | Conclusion | MEANING OF TRAINING:- Training is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. Training has specific goals of improving one's capability, capacity, productivity and performance. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of technology (also known as technical colleges or polytechnics). In addition to the basic training required for a trade, occupation or profession, observers of the labour-market[who?] recognize as of 2008 the need to continue training beyond initial qualifications: to maintain, upgrade and update skills throughout working life. People within many professions and occupations may refer to this sort of training as professional development. Concept and Meaning of Training The next phase of employment program begins with the arrangement of training needs after the newly appointed employees have entered into the...
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...1.0. Introduction: In general sense we mean “Bank” as a financial institution that deals with money. There are different types of banks like Central bank, Commercial bank, saving bank, Investment bank, Merchant bank, Co operative bank etc. But when we use the term bank it generally means ‘commercial bank’ that collects the deposit from surplus unit of the society and then lends the deposits to the deficit units of the society. The existence of banking sector is not a new matter, as its existence was long years ago. But the new thing is that how it operates and presenting its activities for the purpose of serving customer requirements to increase their well being in the sense of wealth. Banks also provide many services for clients to make easy their life in a busy environment. In this competitive environment in today’s world, the entire bank increases their facilities in favor of their customers to retain them and capture more share of the market to be leader. Interest is one of the main factors in attracting customers and also one of the significant factors in increasing extra income from providing loans besides other service income. So, it can be said that conventional banking systems are interest-based system. Bangladesh is one of the largest Muslim countries of the world. The people of this country are deeply committed to Islamic way of Life as it is mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah. But it is not possible for the people to establish and design their economic lives...
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...Training and Development Plan Student name: Institution: Introduction If output is to increase by 96% following the expanding market and increased product demand, then there is a need to design a precise human resource development (HRD) plan that will avail a formal training program for Motors and More Inc. This plan will help equip the employees with requisite skills for their job description as well as provide the management with a better and sound criteria for promotions. Similarly, promotions will not only be based on seniority but also on the basis of the skills acquired from the formal training. Therefore, as a training and development coordinator I had to come up with a detailed formal training plan that will address new employees, current employees, and managerial staff. This comprehensive plan encompasses a needs assessment criterion to be carried out beforehand, training content development, determination of content delivery method and hiring of a trainer/consultant. Training and Development Plan Role Definition As the head of this department, my task is to oversee the development of our organization’s intellectual property with the help of other Human Resource Development Professionals. These professionals will be involved in needs assessment to aid in the design, development, delivery and evaluation of the formal training process. According to Rae (1997), by training managers and employees, HRD supports performance management to a great extent. The HD...
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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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