IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING

IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING

        Training of employees and managers are absolutely essential in this changing environment. It is an important activity of HRD which helps in improving the competency of employees. Training gives a lot of benefits to the employees such as improvement in efficiency and effectiveness, development of self-confidence and assists everyone in self-management. Employees training is important to organisational because it can make achievement of organisational goals possible. When successfully conducted, training can benefit the organisation through increased profitability, improved employee morale and commitment, increased awareness of goals, an improved organisational image. The stability and progress of the organization always depends on the training imparted to the employees. Training becomes mandatory under each and every step of expansion and diversification.

1. Improve the Quality of Work: Training helps in standardizing the methods of work and right use of tools. Uniform work methods and procedures help to improve the quality of product or service. It also results in elimination of possible mistakes.

2. Advantages of standardization: The methods of production are standardized through training. All trained employees follow same methods and techniques of production and hence there can be little variation in output and standards produced by different employees. By using standardized methods, the quality of output would be increased.

3. Reduced Supervision: Trained employees perform with less supervision. Both employee and supervisor want greater work freedom. But this is possible unless the employee is adequately trained. Trained people need less guidance and control.

4. Increasing organisational stability and flexibility: Training provides opportunities for the employees to learn an acquire skills to work in several departments in an organisation. Training also results in low rate of labour turnover which means high consistency in organisations in retaining people for long period of time.

5. Increase in Productivity: Training improves employee performance. Trained employee use better methods of work, sound knowledge and good awareness of his goals. It result in increased quantity of work and output. Training brings about increase in quantity and quality of goods produced resulting in high productivity.

6. Future Manpower Need: Through proper training employees become eligible for promotion handling more responsibility. An expanding and growing organisation wishes to train the existing employees so as to place them in higher positions in future.

7. Personal Growth: Training creates a sense of control over his own personal future. It provides an opportunity to accomplish personal goals. It builds self-confidence, sense of worth, and work qualities. It prevents decay of knowledge. It helps to develop people as future managers.

8. Good Organisational Environment: Training creates new workplace relationship. It helps to improve owner-employee relations. Organisational stability is enhanced because of low employee turnover and absenteeism. Training removes the haphazard, casual, and misdirected efforts of employee. It makes manpower an integrated part of management.