NATURE OF TRAINING AND DEVLOPMENT
In simple terms, training and development refers to the imparting of specific skills, abilities and knowledge to an employee.
More clearly, training and development may be understood as 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 follow:
Training and development = standard performance –actual performance.
Difference between training, development & education
We can make a distinction among training, education and development. Such distinction enables us to acquire a better perspective about the meaning of the terms. Training, as was stated earlier, refers to the process of imparting specific skills. Education on the other hand, is confined to theoretical learning in classroom.
Though training and education differ in nature and orientation, they are complementary. An employee, for example, who undergoes training is presumed to have had had some formal education. Furthermore, no training programme is complete without an element of education. In fact, the distinction between training and education is getting increasingly blurred nowadays. As more and more employees are called upon to exercise judgment and to choose alternative solution to the job problem, training programme seek to broaden and develop the individual through education. For instance, employees in well-paid jobs and/or employees in the service industry may be required to make independent decision regarding their work and their relationship with clients. Hence, firms must consider element of both education and training while planning their training programmes.
Development refers to those