Training Process in Organizations

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Human resource is an important element of every business with employees, and is a job that requires ongoing training, commitment and integrity. Most organizations have a centralized training area which is the Human Resource Department (HRD). The role of the Human Resource Department is to improve the organization’s effectiveness by providing employees with the knowledge, skill, and abilities that will improve their current or future job performance. An effective training process is aimed at achieving the organization’s productivity goals. According to Blanchard and Thacker (1999), there are five important steps in the process of training in organization which are analyzing the training needs, designing the training program, developing the training program, implementing the training program and evaluating the training program (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1).
The first step in training process in organization is to analyze the training needs. Training needs analysis is a systematic method to determine what is needed to be done in order to improve employees’ performances in a particular job to the expected level. These training needs depend on the environment, the performance of the organization, and how many people need to be trained immediately or in the future. Blanchard and Thacker had stated that sometimes, the employees do not meet their job performance requirements. For one thing, the environment can affect the way the organization managers design job, supervise the employees, and make decisions (Schneider, 1976). This is to ensure customers’ requirements are fulfilled and to achieve the accommodation goal of the organization.
Nonetheless, the Human Resource Department is then identifies what the employee needs. This step...

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