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TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT


TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

        Training is an activity leading to skilled behavior, the process of teaching employees the basic skills they need to perform their jobs. The heart of a continuous effort designed to improve employee competency and organizational performance. Training typically focuses on providing employees with specific skills or helping those correct deficiencies in their performance.

         It is a short-term learning process that involves the acquisition of knowledge, sharpening of skills, concepts, rules, or changing of attitudes and behaviors to enhance the performance of employees. After an employee is selected, placed and introduced in an organization he must be provided with training facilities so that he can perform his job efficiently and effectively.
       Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skill of an employee for doing a particular job. It is a short-term educational process. In brief, it is a systematic procedure for transferring technical know-how to employees. It aims at increasing the ability of the employee, so that they can do the job in an effective and efficient manner.
Edwin B. Flippo Said, “Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skills of an employee for doing a particular job”.
According to Promoter and Thoruton, “Training is the intentional act of providing means for learning to take place.”
In the words of Dale S. Beach, “Training is the organized procedure by which people learn knowledge and improve skill for a definite purpose.”
In the words of Michael J. Jucius, “Training is a process by which the aptitudes, skills, and abilities of employees perform specific jobs are increasing.”
According to R.C. Davis, “Training may be defined as a process of developing and understanding of some organised body of facts, rules, and methods.”


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