¶ … Training
Effective and Ineffective Employee Training
Few features define an organization as directly and as fully as its personnel. The knowledge, dedication and ability required to afford a company success must all be encapsulated in said company's employees. While recruitment and screening will play a significant part in ensuring that personnel are an adequate fit to contribute these qualities to a company, it is also critical that the hiring company employ training strategies both for initiation into the company and for ongoing advancement of skills.
As the discussion hereafter will demonstrate, training is necessitated by a combination of the specific procedures, practices and expectations within a specific company and by the various ways in which objectives, companies and industries will undergo change. As the text provided by eCornell (2010) denotes,
"the many challenges associated with the changing nature of work and the workplace environment are very real for every...
Rapid change requires a skilled, knowledgeable workforce with employees who are adaptive, flexible and focused on the future." (eCornell, p. 1) It is for this reason that it is invaluable for an employing firm to provide its employees with a clear, streamlined and proven method of training.
It does bear noting though that there are a wide array of training methods and that some are more effective than others. It would benefit an organization to account for the method likeliest to be effective in its given context. Some traditional methods of training may well fall short of their intended goal for lack of suitability to the given setting. For instance, the text by Noe (2009) indicates that such frequently employed methods as the lecture may not achieve the desired effect in all settings. While this is a mode of instruction often used in more discursive learning environments, Noe warns that this approach might not be practical in more hands-on settings. Accordingly, the text tells that "lectures…
