Objectives of Employee Training in an Organisation

Objectives of Training – General Objectives: Enhance Knowledge of Employees, Improve Job Related Skills, Develop Proper Job-Related Attitudes and a Few Others

The general objectives of training are discussed below:

Objective # 1. To Enhance Knowledge of Employees:

Organisations need to help their employees to keep up their knowledge in tune with the contemporary trends. This is especially so in these days of explosive improvements and innovations in science and technology. Organisations should support their personnel in the battle against obsolescence. Personnel are to be exposed to refresher courses and developmental programs with a view to improve their utility to the organisation.

Objective # 2. To Improve Job Related Skills:

Some employees are not able to perform their jobs well. They possess inadequate skills and knowledge of their assignments with the result that they produce poor quality and volume of output, waste resources, damage equipment and tools, respond insufficiently to the supervisor’s instructions and so on. They need a training course for the purpose of removing their deficiencies and fitting them to their jobs.

Objective # 3. To Develop Proper Job-Related Attitudes:

The employees have to be trained to develop positive and helpful attitudes towards their jobs, superiors, colleagues and juniors, the goals, policies and procedures of the organisation and to the environment of the work place.

Employees sometimes tend to be ignorant, indifferent and even hostile towards their jobs in their inter-personnel relations and to the work culture. Attitude development and socialisation of the personnel is essential for generating teamwork, ensuring discipline and maintaining consistent behaviour.

Objective # 4. To Prepare for Higher Responsibilities:

The personnel need to have opportunities for advancement in their careers. Concurrently, they should also be striving for assuming higher responsibilities and performing more complex tasks with competence. For this purpose, an organisation may design a system whereby opportunities are made available to personnel for their career advancement and simultaneously preparing them through training for higher positions.

Objective # 5. To Facilitate Organisational Changes:

Organisations need to be dynamic to cope with, adjust and adapt to the changes in technology and other environmental forces. The personnel have to be conditioned to learn new skills and capabilities to enable them to be receptive to required changes and to assimilate them.

For this purpose, they are to be properly trained. Training of personnel is one of the approaches for the organisation to win over their resistance to change which is caused by fear, anxiety and unfamiliarity.