DAY 4
Topic of the day
Definition of training and types of training
Definition of motivation
How to motivate employees
What is management styles
Different styles of management styles to practice
What is motivational strategies
What is an equal opportunity policy
What is resignation and types of resignation
WHAT IS TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
This refers to a system of educating employees within a company. It includes various tools, instructions and activities designed to improve employee performance. It is an opportunity for employees to increase their knowledge and upgrade their skills.
In HRM we have two types of training
Onsite training
Offsite training
Importance of training in HRM includes;
To the organization
To the employees
For personal and human relation
TO THE ORGANIZATION
Gets more effective in decision making and problem solving
Improve the morale of the workforce
Helps people identify the organizational goal
Aids in developing leadership skills, motivation, loyalty and better attitude.
Aids in improving productivity and quality of work
Aids in understanding and carrying out organizational policies.
Aids in organizational development
Creates an appropriate climate for growth and development
Helps employee adjust to change
TO THE EMPLOYEES
Increases job satisfaction and recognition
Moves a person towards personal goals while improving skills
Helps in eliminating the fear of attempting new tasks
Provides the trainee with an avenue for growth
Through training and development, motivational variables or recognition, achievement growth, responsibility and advancement are internalized and operationalized
Provides information for improving leadership, communication skills and attitudes.
Helps to handle stress, tension, frustration and conflict
FOR PERSONNEL AND HUMAN RELATION
Improve inter personnel skills
Improves morale
Builds cohesiveness in groups
Makes the organization a better place to work and live
ONSITE TRAINING
Onsite training can also be called as on the job training. These trainings are conducted inside the organization and it enables the inexperienced staffs to learn new things by observing their co workers or superiors performing on the job. These kind of training is cheaper and also easier to conduct.
The onsite training can be divided into various types and these includes;
Coaching
Mentoring
Job instructional techniques
Job rotation
Apprenticeship
Understudy
COACHING
This is an onsite training or an on the job training. It is a one on one training that is, a single employee entrusted to a single superior or co worker. What the superior needs to do is identify the weaknesses of the new employees and focus on improving them theoretically or practically. It is commonly used to guide an operational employee.
MENTORING
This is like the coaching as it is also a one on one training type. The difference is that mentoring focuses on developing the attitudes of the employee rather than the technical skills and also used to commonly guide an employee ion a managerial level as it can only be given by the seniors of the organization.
JOB INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES (JIT)
This is a structural training method under which the staffs are provided with step by step training and it can involve two or more trainers at a time. For example, we have 4 trainers A, B, C, D. where trainer A will provide an overview of the job, trainer B will practically exhibit or explain the job then trainer C will observe how well the staffs can comply with their knowledge while trainer D will provide feedbacks to help the staff where necessary.
JOB ROTATION
This is an interesting way of training employees by rotating them through services of closely related jobs. These kind of training allows the employees to learn many things and get familiar with different jobs.
APPRECNTICESHIP
This is a modern approach of training a practitioner and this method is always adopted for inexperienced staffs or fresh graduates especially for a technical field. These kinds of employees do the same work as their superiors or experts and are paid lesser than other employees doing the same job. This style is very expensive as there is no assurance that the employees will continue to work in the same organization.
UNDERSTUDY
This is basically the person that replaces any staff in their absence. This is the process in which the superior instructs the staffs by considering them as an understudy by making them learn from the seniors by observing and experiencing how to handle the day to day tasks and it prepares the staff to be able to handle full responsibility on his or her own.
OFFSITE TRAINING
Offsite training can also be called off the job training and these training programs are conducted away from the workplace. This mode of training is very expensive but it is also very effective in training staffs. These can be sub divided into three groups;
Lectures and conferences
Vestibule training
Lectures and conference
LECTURES AND CONFERENCE
These are the traditional method of training employees. It always aims at training a large audience through verbal presentation and interactions. This idea is used to motivate the employees using an effective and strong speaker.
VESTIBLE TRAINING
This is a modern method of training staffs under which the staffs are trained at prototype environment of specific job. These kind of training will enable the staffs to be ready to do the real job because the training environment are conditioned with similarities to the actual workplace as it reduces initial nervousness.
SENSITIVITY TRAINING
This is where a number of people work together in the company and it is very essential for every staff to consider his or her work sentiments and feelings. This is a special training provided to the employee to make them capable of understanding about themselves and others reasonably. These kind of training aims at developing behavioral flexibility and social sensitivity in the employees as it helps in realizing personal qualities and issues that is strength and weaknesses while getting to know other employees.
WHAT IS MOTIVATION?
Motivation is derived from the word motive and it is defined as the process of motivating individuals to take action in order to achieve a goal. This can also be defined as the need, desire, want or drive within the individual, as a process of stimulating people into actions in order to accomplish the goals of the organization. Motivation describes the level of desire employees feel to perform regardless of the level of happiness. Motivated employees tend to be more productive, engaged, and invested in their work.
HOW TO MOTIVATE EMPLOYEES
There are many ways to encourage or motivate employers as managers who want to improve productivity, must make;
The employees have the feeling that their job is important and key to the success of the organization.
He must make sure the employees believe that good work is rewarded accordingly
He must make sure that the employees see that they are all treated fairly without favoritism or discrimination
MANAGEMENT STYLES
A management style is the particular way managers goes about accomplishing objectives and goals, that is, the decision making, the planning and organizing , and exercising of authority. This varies from company to company, managers to managers, and persons to persons. However, we have different management styles;
Autocrative style of working
Paternalistic style of working
Democratic style of working
Laisser faire style of working
Management by working around style of working
AUTOCRATIVE STYLE OF WORKING
This is a style in which the superior does not take into consideration the idea and suggestions of the subordinate in the decision making of the organization. The subordinates are dependent on the superior without the freedom of making decisions themselves. The subordinates also lack motivation and only adhere strictly to the policies of the superiors. Therefore, autocrative syle of working simply means the style of working in which decision, organizational policies, guidelines, are all in the hands of the superiors.
PATERNALISTIC STYLE OF WORKING
This is where the leader decides what is best for the employees as well as the organization and the policies are diverse to the benefit of the employees and organization. The suggestions and feedbacks of the subordinates are also taken into consideration before decision is made regarding the organization. Employees here also feel attached and loyal to the organization and this makes them feel highly motivated and enjoy their work.
DEMOCRATIC STYLE OF WORKING
This is a style of working where the superior will welcome the feedback of the subordinates and employees are invited to discuss the pros and cons of plans and ideas. This also ensures an effective and healthy communications between the management and the employee and this enables the superior to listen to whatever the employee has to say before making a final decision on anything.
LAISSER FAIRE STYLE OF WORKING
This is a style of working where managers are employed just for the sake of it because they do not contribute much to the organization as the employees are the ones responsible for making decision and managing the work on their own and they do not depend on their managers.
MANAGEMENT BY WORKING AROUND STYLE OF WORKING
In this style, the managers treat themselves as an essential part of the team and are effective listeners. The superiors also interact with the employees often to know their concerns and suggestions. The leader here is more like a mentor that guides the employees whenever the need arise. The manager does not sit in an office but instead, they walk around to see what is happening.
WHAT IS MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES
Motivation strategies are techniques that promote the individual goal related behavior, to develop motivated employees. The HR manager should ensure that HR personnel, as well as the other departmental managers must do the following;
Empowering employees
Providing an effective reward system
Redesigning jobs
Creating flexibility
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY POLICY
This simply means fair treatment for each individual, everyone is supposed to have equal access to job opportunities, promotion and other benefits, no favoritism of one staff over another, there should be no discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion or physical disability.
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