OBJECTIVES OF TRAINING

Effective training and development programs are essential for any organization to achieve its objectives. By providing employees with the skills and knowledge they need to excel in their roles, companies can improve productivity, boost morale, and drive overall business success. Whether you're looking to upskill your workforce, enhance performance, or foster a culture of continuous learning, investing in training and development is a wise choice. 

Objectives of training methods can be determined generally as below.

a) Increase job satisfaction and morals among employees

b) Increase employee motivation

c) Increase efficiencies in processes, resulting in financial gain

d) Increase capacity to adopt new technologies and methods

e) Increase innovation in strategies and products

f) Reduce employee turnover

g) Enhance company image, e.g., conducting ethics training (not a good reason for ethics training!)

h) Risk management, e.g., training about sexual harassment, diversity training

Objectives of orientations are different from other methods, because it is given for the new employees of the organization at the beginning of their career at organization. Orientation training should emphasize the following topics:

(i) The company's history and mission.

(i) The key members in the organization.

(ii) The key members in the department, and how the department helps fulfill the mission of the company.

(iii) Personnel rules and regulations.

Objectives of the telling methods give an idea about the training area. Some times written parts also can be seen in this method, but generally this method gives an understanding about the learning area.

Showing methods create a picture in trainees mind and it helps to bring the trainee to real situations and that helps to practice decision making and general understanding in wide area, than telling method. This method also helps to increase the creativity of the trainee.

Role playing generate leaders and decision makers. Such kind of things help the trainee to get a deep understanding about the learning and working area. These kind of trainings can be used for junior management levels and finally can make a competence, skillful employees. Job rotation reduces the individual stress while training employees as generalists. By this training method, employer or management can assign the trained employee to fill an internal vacancy, with out giving training again. This will help the smooth flow of work at the organization. These kinds of trainings are better to face absenteeism of an employee in any manner.

Technical training is unique for a job. Most of technicians are specialized for their fields. So these technical trainings reduce wastage and accidents while maximizing the profit of a firm or the line. These kinds of trainings create efficiency in the organizational production.