...Question 1.) Using the model found on page 194, evaluate Allstate’s goal-setting process. How does it work? Allstate uses a development program with four basic steps to help motivate their employees. Diversity is one of the company’s competitive advantages, and consequently, their challenges are how to sustain their advantage and increase performance. The steps of the program is clear, easy to follow, and easy to achieve. The plan consists of succession programming, developing employees, measuring results, and lastly, accountability and offering rewards or assistance to employees to achieve the goals. Some of the moderators that can be identified with the Allstate’s goal-setting process is the training and development tools they offer to employees...
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...employee training and development program in Jiangnan Group Limited is not functioning good enough to help achieve the company goals. The major areas of weakness require further investigation and remedial action by management are company too rely on manpower, traditional training programs can be too costly and often too time-consuming, continually increase manufacturing cost by China’s current Five-Year-Plan (2011-15) of minimum wage and the rising value of the RMB raise the production cost and made the goods more costly to ship. To resolve the problems the following recommendations are proposed: * Review existing T&D programs to ensure they address MCO Competency Gaps and Leadership Talent Pool needs. * Revise/upgrade existing T&D programs to improve competencies and/or add ‘new’ ones * Develop new T&D Programs to identify necessary or additional resources (outside vendors, partnering arrangement with other agencies, budget/resources needs and availability, etc.) * By using E-training system, Jiangnan Group Limited is able to train employees stationed remotely, without having to regard geographic or language barriers. * Establishing a new manufacturing facility in South Africa to benefit from the growth in South Africa and its surrounding countries. * Also save cost from establishing a new manufacturing facility in South Africa * Using robots to replace manpower * Adopt E-training for management & marketing training * develop...
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...Impact of Training and Development on Employees Performance and Productivity Problem statement: The human resource department is the only one department wherein a good decision is being carried out from the start of hiring process up to the point of the promotion and retention. One purpose of HR is to produce a talent that would be fit in the needs of the organization and be suitable the human knowledge in their position. The idea of having a right people in the right position is not impossible through the integration of the training and development. But on How will the training can affect the productivity of the employees in service sector? Objectives of research: The main objective is to increase the understanding regarding employee’s training and development in relation to firm's performance. * Identify the major purposes of training and development, as well as the key internal and external influences on training. * Ascertain the training and development policy in operation at selected organizations (Bank of Punjab, National Bank of Pakistan, PTCL, and Ufone). * To explore the employee training contributes to their performance. To explore why Training is important for employees and firm performance. * To find out whether training and development programmers have positive effect on the performance of workers and productivity. * Outline and explain the training and development practices and processes including the assessment of training needs. ...
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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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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM Background and Purpose of the Study People who are employed in an organization have similar perspective to achieve work efficiency, and to attain efficiency is job performance. Training of employees is required to develop their skills, ability and knowledge. Since men are living in a changing world where increase in development takes place, people must adapt to its environment for him\her not to be left behind. A training and development system is a set of element which, with some objectives, uses processes to transform inputs into outputs. The inputs to a training system are trainees with certain characteristic: IQ, education, experience, and ability to perform as required on the job. The outputs are the trainees scientific know – how, skills, and attitudes, their performance on the job experience, and training development designing and producing courses and other training experience. Training is one of the most effective tools in business and industry to bring the best from the employees. Training is designed to help the employee adjust to his work, to develop his pride and enthusiasm for the job. Maintaining high standard of services and to prepare him for the advancement of its work in greater responsibilities and challenge boosting morale and enthusiasm of the employee’s loyalty and interest in the company. As the most important asset of the organization, the employees still remain as human beings having their own needs and wants. To be able to...
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...1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study The effect of training and manpower development on employee’s productivity and organization performance has attracted considerable interest in the analytical and empirical literature. On the whole, human resources management theory has paid considerable attention to this debate; however, the theoretical predictions are ambiguous. Depending on their underlying assumptions, some approaches predict that the performance of an organization is necessarily based on innovative labour force, technology, quality management, and customer satisfaction; while others see training as a tool in the hands of human resources managers to activate and empower the productive base of an organization (Dhamodharan, 2010). Barron and Hagerty (2001) asserted that employee training and manpower development is very vital to job productivity and organization performance, since the formal educational system does not adequately provide specific job skills for a position in a particular organization. While, few individuals may have the requisite skills, knowledge, abilities and competencies needed to fit into a specific job function, some others may require extensive training to acquire the necessary skills to be able to fit in a specific job function and also make significant contribution to the organization’s performance. Guest (2007) asserted that human capital theory provides evidence which indicates that training and education raises the productivity of workers...
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...Aidah Nassazi EFFECTS OF TRAINING ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE. Evidence from Uganda Business Economics and Tourism 2013 VAASAN AMMATTIKORKEAKOULU UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES International Business ABSTRACT Author Title Year Language Pages Name of Supervisor Aidah Nassazi Effects of training on Employee performance. Evidence from Uganda 2013 English 57 + 2 Appendices Koskinen Ossi Employees are major assets of any organization. The active role they play towards a company’s success cannot be underestimated. As a result, equipping these unique assets through effective training becomes imperative in order to maximize the job performance. Also position them to take on the challenges of the today’s competitive business climate. Although extensive research has been conducted in the area of Human Research Management, the same cannot be said on employee training especially as it concerns developing countries. The purpose of this thesis was to evaluate the effects of training on employee performance, using the telecommunication industry in Uganda as case study. In order to understand the study aim, four goals were developed and these focused particularly on identifying the training programs’ existing in the industry, the objective of the training offered, the methods employed and finally the effects of training and development on employee performance. The study was based on three case studies of the biggest telecommunication companies operating...
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...PROPOSAL TOPIC: THE EFFECTS OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF KOFORIDUA POLYTECHNIC STAFF GEORGE ASANTE EDUAH (SB/DHR/13/0020) MBA HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 1.1 Background of the Study The Workers or Employees working in or for an organization are now being considered as ‘human assets’ even though different terms like ‘staff’, ‘manpower’, ‘personnel’, etc. are still in currency. The emerging trend is to treat them as ‘human assets’ or ‘human resources’. The success of any organization depends on appropriate use of human assets available in the organization. All other assets could only be supplementary to human assets. Towards augmenting the human resources and to cope with changes – both internal and external, the organization has to concentrate necessarily on developing the ability, wisdom and skills of its workforce. Again employees are said to be the most valuable assets in an organization, and that an organization is only as good as its people. Only through them can organizations achieve their objectives. It is therefore important that employees possess the necessary skills, knowledge and abilities (SKAs) in order that organizations achieve their goals and remain competitive and successful. A formal approach for organizations to update employees’ acquisition of job-related SKAs is by training. From a human capital theory perspective, training is investment rather than consumption. Research claimed that training is an important factor that could...
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... |1 | | |Profile of Organization |8 | |II |REVIEW OF LITERATURE |16 | |III |OBJECTIVES |18 | |IV |RESEARCH METHODOLOGY |19 | |V |DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION |21 | |VI |FINDINGS OF THE STUDY |36 | |VII |SUGGESTION AND RECOMMENDATIONS...
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...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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...TEACHERS TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THE ACADEME OF GOV. P. F. ESPIRITU ELEMENTARY SCHOOL __________________________________________________________ Final Paper Presented to the Open University System Polytechnic University of the Philippines Maragondon, Cavite _________________________________________ In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements In Organizational Development and Leadership Effectiveness ________________________ Submitted by: CATHERINE M. SALGADO RENNALYN S. VELARDE AVELINA D. PISCOSO BERLITA B. TANAGON Submitted to: DR. APOLONIO A. DUQUE THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction There is a substantial literature on the relationship between teacher characteristics and student learning. Most prior research on this topic has focused on teachers’ educational background, years of teaching experience and salaries. The results of this work are mixed. While it is clear that certain teachers are more effective than others at increasing student performance, there is considerably less consensus on whether specific, observable teacher characteristics such as education or experience produce higher performance. While most research has focused on general skills, school districts and states often rely on in-service staff development as a way to improve student learning. This on-the-job training seeks to instruct teachers in content as well as pedagogy. Professional development is an extremely widespread practice in...
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...Challenges in Human Resource Development Practitioner Preparation Organisational learning and skill formation initiatives are increasingly being seen as contributing to the achievement of organisational competitiveness in the contemporary economy. As a result, the development of employees has become a more prominent organisational practice. Since Human Resource Development (HRD) practitioners are primarily responsible for employee development there is a need for them to become more highly skilled to ensure that their practice meets the changing needs of organisations. Formal educational programs in the practice of HRD provide a way of assisting practitioners to acquire the skills they now need for effective practice. The design of such programs, however, is problematic given the emergent and cross-disciplinary nature of the ® eld. This paper surfaces some of the challenges associated with program design for the development of HRD practitioners, drawing from discussions in, and pro® ling research from, the HRD literature. The ® nal section of the paper proposes several key areas that need to be addressed in preparatory programs for HRD practitioners. edged, for the purposes of this paper those working in organisations with positional labels including enterprise trainer, training of® cer, trainer and developer, learning strategist or consultant, performance developer, organisational developer and staff development of® cer are being collapsed into one occupational category...
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...the research findings on the practice of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Australia. HRD can be defined as a set of systematic and planned activities design by an organization to provide its members with the opportunities to learn necessary skills to meet current and future job demands. The paper also highlights the challenges in the development of the HRD in the country such as the alignment of training and development practice with the business strategy, the unfocused and not strategic training, and lower level of resource allocator in this field. The implication of HRD by the means of globalization also has been stated in this paper. The later section of this paper identifies the strategies that are capable of overcoming the stated challenges. Such strategies are engaging to national vocational education and training (VET) system, and developed specific roles that can help the HRD practitioners to develop HRD field. Involvement of HR professional’s association members will also be crucial. The Australian government also participates to develop strategies by introducing the Training Guarantee Administration Act 1990, principally to raise Australia’s international competiveness. Australian organizations also involve by improving generic skills needed by the workers to perform well in the workplaces of the future. 1.0 HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT IN AUSTRALIA In recent years, the rise of Human Resource Development (HRD) in Australia, as in most other developed nations...
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...i FACTORS LIMITING EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAINING PROGRAMMES IN PARASTATAL ORGANIZATIONS IN TANZANIA: A CASE STUDY OF TANZANIA ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED, DAR-ES-SALAAM AND COAST ZONE IGNATIUS SHENGENA MNDEME A DISSERTATION SUBMITED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT) OF THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA 2011 CERTIFICATION I, the undersigned certify that I have read and hereby recommend for acceptance by the Open University of Tanzania a dissertation entitled, “Factors limiting implementation of Training Programmes in Parastatal Organizations in Tanzania: A case study of Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited, Dar-es-salaam and Coastal Zone”. In partial fulfillment for the requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration (Human Resource Management). Supervisor…………………………………… Dr. Chacha Matoka Date………………………………………….. iii COPYRIGHT No part of this dissertation may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the author or the Open University of Tanzania in that behalf. iv DECLARATION I, Ignatius Shengena Mndeme, declare that this dissertation is my own original work and has not been submitted for a similar degree at any other University. Signature ……………………………. Date ………………………… v ...
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...CASE STUDY OF VODAFONE 1 Role of Training and Development in Employee Retention Case Study of Vodafone 2 ABSTRACT Employees are the strategic asset of any organization; this talent has to be managed and preserved. This project presents a descriptive study, which mainly investigates on the functioning and role of training and development in employee retention, a case study of VODAFONE, a leading telecommunication company of UK, has been presented in this research. This study also investigate on the significance of training and development in managing of employees, different types of training methods in use, and its effects on retention of employees and about benefits which company gains as well. The study mainly helps in finding about the benefits of training and development in retention of employees as well as about the retention of companies information as well. This study emphasizes the role of training and development plays a very crucial role in retaining the capable employees, which are the precious assets treasured by all organizations. Keywords: retention, T&D (Training and Development), Vodafone Contents 3 Abstract ......................................................................................................................................3 Acknowledgements .....................................................................................................................8 CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION .........................
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