A Study on Employees Training and Development Vision Plus Private Limited
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Introduction:
Human Resource Management is defined as the people who staff and manage organization. It
comprises of the functions and principles that are applied to retaining, training, developing,
and compensating the employees in organization. It is also applicable to non-business
organizations, such as education, healthcare, etc. Human Resource Management is defined as
the set of activities, programs, and functions that are designed to maximize both
organizational as well as employee effectiveness.
Scope of HRM without a doubt is vast. All the activities of employee, from the time of his
entry into an organization until he leaves, come under the horizon of HRM. The divisions
included in HRM are Recruitment, Payroll, Performance Management, Training and
Development, Retention, Industrial Relation, etc. Out of all these divisions, one such
important division is training and development.
Training And Development is a subsystem of an organization. It ensures that randomness is
reduced and learning or behavioral change takes place in structured format.
William James of Harvard University estimated that employees could retain their jobs by
working at a mere 20-30 percent of their potential. His study led him to believe that if these
same employees were properly motivated, they could work at 80-90 percent of their
capabilities. Behavioral science concepts like motivation and enhanced productivity could
well be used in such improvements in employee output. Training could be one of the means
used to achieve such improvements through the effective and efficient use of learning
resources.
Human resources, are the most valuable assets of any organization, with the
machines, materials and even the money, nothing gets done without man-power. The
effective functioning of any organization requires that employees learn to perform their jobs
at a satisfactory level of proficiency. Here is the role of training. Employee training tries to
improve skills or add to the existing level of the knowledge so that the employee is better
equipped to do his present job or to prepare him for higher position with increased
responsibilities. However individual growth is not an end itself. Organization growth needs to
be meshed with the individual’s growth. The concern is for the organization viability, that it
should adapt itself to a changing environment. Employee growth and development has to be
seen in the context of this change. So training can be defined as: