Employee Training & Development

Employee Training and Development

What is Employee Training and Development?

Training and development is a process to learn and improve skill as well as knowledge which direct employee productivity & performance in their current job role. It's addressing future performance of the organization through employee growth.

Companies with modern training and development process retain more employees with higher profitability. Trained and developed employees helps the organization avoid unnecessary costs due to losing talents. In simple manner these employees increasing their skills and also use them to their organization improvement as well.

Different Between Employee Training and Development

Some one can argue that both these subject are similar, but both these have different meanings and roles.

When talking about employee training, always it starts with specific subject or short term activity or immediate requirement or a need arise in a job role, likewise it refer to a specific subject of the employee.

Employee training focuses on helping the employee to do the current job better. It helping to solve the problem arising in their day to day job role and functions and empower the knowledge required to upgrade in the current job role.

In a more formal sense, employee training is the process of providing the required skills to an employee for a specific task.

Compared with training, employee development subject is a broader one.

It is a long-term activity that focuses on the development of an each individual staff skills accordingly and align with the goals and the vision of the company.

Can be defined as the process of employees refining, developing, and learning new skills that align with the goals and the vision of the company.

It focuses on whole skills of an individual to be able to raise as prospective person to the organization. Correctly developed individuals can lead to more job satisfaction which results in a more engaged employee and for newer possibilities and roles.

Employee Training	Employee Development
Short Term Activity	Broder Scope and long term activity
Focus on a specific role	Focus on entirety of an individual
Fulfill immediate requirement and need	Help groom newer possibilities and roles

Why Employee Training and Development is important in HRM

Prosperity of organization directly defend on continuous learning. It advantage to organization are familiarizes to changing scenarios and welcomes the development.

Here are a Few Benefits of Employee Training and Development in an Organization:

• Better Utilization of organization resources 
• Increase Profitability
• Employee Engagement to the process
• Performance Improvement 
• Positive Attitudes

Impact of Employee Training and Development to an Organization

1. Training and development make skillful employees and skillful employees would provide great service to the organization. 

2. By analyzing employers own skills and by polishing those skills organization can make them the best working employee in that field. 

3.There may be some employees in the organization lacking certain sorts of skills, through training and development make the opportunities to grow.

4. Company invested in training and development will result employees improve performance, efficiency and less defaults company time and cost will be saved. 

5. Training and developments will help employees to growth in their roles and be engaged with the organization and will want to stay in organization.

6. Training and development helps the employee to be prepared for better roles and set to handle more difficult situations which is the path for future leaders.

Conclusion

Training and developing employee skills will help employees feel more involved with the organization with better skill set and also influences the company culture to change. When employees feel confidence, autonomy and sense of value after training and development they are able to lead and inspire other employees better.

If the employee receives the right training then they can develop future leadership skills and can be more goal-oriented. It’s as simple as” If  company invest in their employee, their growth will invest back in the company.

                                                     (Source: Greggu, 2017)

References 

Armstrong, Michael;, 2006. A Handbook of Human Resource Managment Practice. 10th ed. London: Kogan Page Limited.

Azmi, Waqar;, 2021. StartuoHRtoolkit. [Online]
Available at: https://www.startuphrtoolkit.com/employee-training-and-development/
[Accessed 23rd July 2021].