Training

Training

1. On The Job

   • DEFINITION : Training that takes place while employees are actually working in their work environment.
   • EXAMPLE: An example of this method of training is a sales assistant, they will shadow a fellow experienced employee to see how the job is carried out.
   • Employees learn in the real work environment and gain experience dealing with the tasks and challenges that they will meet during a normal working day.
   • Employees will start working straight away.
   • Skills can be gained while trainees are carrying out their jobs. This benefits both employees and the business.
   • Helps to motivate the experienced workers chosen to do the training as they fell more confident and valuable to the business
   • Training is specific to the job.
   • Cheaper than other methods of training.
   • Skills may not be transferable to other companies, reducing the chances the employee will leave.
   • Lots of distractions making it easy for the new trainee to make mistakes that could be valuable to the company and loosing them money.
   • The trainer will be less productive when carring out the training.
   • Often, they are not trained by an expert teacher, so the quality of the training may be poor.
   • Often, on the job training is rushed in an effort to get the trainee up to speed as quickly as possible and as a means of saving the company money.

2. Off The Job

   • DEFINITION: Off the job training takes place away from the job/place of work.. Training may be on day release, where the employee is let out from work one day a week to attend the course or it may be done in a set block time.
   • EXAMPLE: This training may take place in a college or in a training centre. An example of an organisation that uses this type of training is a place of education such as a school teacher.
   • Chance of an employee making a mistake are minimised as they have better knowledge of the job they are doing,
   • Gains an official qualification, which will help when applying for a promotion or a new job.
   • The courses are taught by specialists who have themselves been trained, so may be better at explaining the new skills than an someone who hasn't.
   • Makes the employee feel valued by the company as they are investing money into their future.
   • This method of training is often particularly expensive.
   • The training on course will be broader than on the job training and may not help directly in the workplace, so the employee may think that much of what they are learning is irrelevant.
   • As the employee will be missing work time to go to the courses a backlog of work may build up, which will be hard to catch up with.
   • The employee may have to travel to get to the course.