Identify aspects of the business training and development programme and explain its importance to the performance of the business?

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Identify aspects of the business training and development programme and explain its importance to the performance of the business?

What is training? 

Training is the acquisition of a body of knowledge and skills, which can be applied to a particular job. Training includes all forms of planned learning experiences and activities designed to make positive changes to performance in a job.

The benefits of training

There are number of major benefits that flow from training:

It increases productivity of workers within a business. It helps achieve the businesses objectivities by having more knowledge within the business.  

Improved efficiency results from saving from material costs due to reduced wastage, improved delivery performance, improved delivery performance, reliability and range of products or services to customers. At Haydon this means less wasted teaching time lessons starting on time lessons planned and run efficiently.  

Creates a more flexible work force. At Haydon this could help when a teacher is off sick and another teacher has the ability to teach another subject for example an Ict teacher who can also teach economics.  

If effective should improve the competitiveness of an organisation. As well as improving its productivity and service to customers. At Haydon this mean’s improved student grades.

Retaining staff, surveys have shown that training costs less in the long run than recruiting full trained workers from outside the organisation. Recruited, fully trained employees tend to leave much sooner than employees the organisation has trained itself. Haydon should try to train staff already at the school to do jobs rather than hire some one from outside.

Improves image of a business. As it will be able to keep staff and have well trained staff where parents will want their children to go to school.l

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Training adds to competitiveness 

In a 'knowledge economy' training & development take on a greater importance than ever before. The company that trains and develops its staff  is best placed to have better educated students and therefore gain competitive advantage.

What is development?

Development approaches the individual and his or her motivation from a different angle from that of training. While training is typically concerned with enabling the employee to contribute to meeting the objectives of Haydon better, personal development is more concerned with enabling individuals to develop themselves in the way that best suits individual needs. The two ...

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