Training Employees
Training employees is a vital part of them being successful in the workplace. It teaches the how to perform their duties effectively, safely, and helps them transition into their work enviroment. Generally, more training time is put into workers who the company feels will stay with them longer. A classic example would be fast food restaurants. They spend minimal time training their teenage part time workers because they know they are almost certainly not going to stay there for the rest of their careers. This makes sense, but it makes me wonder about the safety of their employees. Training makes them better understand the dangers of the work. If they aren't given much training, are they safe in their enviroments?
Comments
Posted by: Kelsey Schell
Posted on: November 2, 2005 02:45 AM
I agree in that a company with a high turnover rate will not invest many training hours in the new employee. This may be a problem in some jobs because some technical work is needed at jobs more than others. For example, a construction company or a lumber yard job will require a knowledge of machinary as well as safety in the workplace. This compared to a job at a movie theater which requires basic customer service traininig and some technical skills. An alternate method to the cost of the company to train these new workers is for the company to designate a quality employee and have that employee take the new worker step by step through the job and explain it all in detail. It is individual learning and hands on to let them get the same experience they would just like during job training through the company. Both methods accomplish the same goals, but one may benefit a company more than the other.
Posted by: Huusain Alkazemi
Posted on: November 6, 2005 10:45 PM
I have to disagree with the entry on being too general. Every case is different sometimes training can lower morale dramatically. Consider this case:
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--- In some countries where the population is barely 1 million and where two thirds of the population in under 20 unemployment is an issue. In this case consider you’re self first to be a college student that graduates with a 4.0 from Harvard, in this country no one would care and you'll be seen as just another applicant if you wanted to work for the government. So just to minimize the unemployment they pay the applicant to go to a college again, and get another degree (if you were finance then get another degree in accounting) that can be good academically but the question is why waste more time when you already have a sufficient degree? Training in this case is bad for the employer because it'll cost them a good amount of money and bad for the employee because he already had the degree. This is what is happening is Kuwait.