Answer to Question #242733 in Management for Kkiki

Question

What are the challenges in the training and development of workers? (50 marks)

Answer 1

Employees are trained to improve their skills so as to enhance the productivity of the company and culture. Business needs to find ways to catch up to the training and put new plans in place for future.

 In development of this workers trainers face challenges which they arose from the transitional change for instance the evolution of technology becomes the most common challenge than ever. To over come this challenge, workers need to accept and embrace innovations since it makes their work easier and much interesting.

Training workers for a new responsibility is a challenge whether they are cross-training to understand multiple roles or moving into a new job position. By training workers, they equip themselves with better skills needed in their current position. The organisation needs to value workers effort in learning the new roles by their own pace and be commitment to promote talents in specific area of workplace.

Employees and workers alike have to scramble to set up workspaces and put procedures in place to keep their workflow intact. Training this worker together trough status meeting, conferences and virtual platforms like zoom are always not very productive to an organisation. This remote workforce becomes a challenge. To over-come this challenge, every worker should know exactly what is expected of them during training and how their achievements will benefit them in their work.

Behavioral engagement and poor knowledge retention are very important to workers during training. In addition, passive learning and lack of commitment contribute to challenges in training and development more so behavioral change is impossible without learning engagement. Trainers, managers need to incorporate practical activities, establish an active learning culture and make all workers feel like part of the culture.

Sometimes training that is not relevant becomes a challenge since training programs are too generic for instance are not personalized enough for specific roles or skills which leads to strain worker’s time. To prevent further training challenge managers nee to conduct post-training feedback surveys to find out what learners found most useful and where the training needs refining.

Trainings are most expensive in terms of cost for example facilitation, equipment, venue hire and the cost of workers time makes training expensive. Training demand are always steed and unluckily when a strained budget also needs to be incorporate travel and software costs. All these challenges have solutions for example the use of webinars instead of fac to face seminars limits travel and time costs.