The current work
business environment is growing rapidly. Because of that, organizations need
to have an up to date business strategy to compete with other organizations.
Most of the organizations invest more money when it comes to learning and
development concept (ATD research 2018). Companies want to recruit
better and get the right people involved and they want to manage their employees
well and reward them so they will perform well. Once
the organization has the right person for the right job,
then it needs to develop them.
Learning and Development
Learning and development
is a process that will help to obtain and develop the knowledge, skills and
attitudes through learning or development experience. This process
will help to build a stronger workforce when the organization needs its
workforce.
Learning
Learning is a
process that helps to achieve skills, behaviors and attitudes via
experience. This is a process that every organization spending a lot
of money and time to help employees to perform well.
As explained by Honey
and Mumford (1996): ‘Learning has happened when people can demonstrate
that they know something that they did not know before
(insights, realizations as well as facts) and when they can do something
they could not do before (skills).’
Development
This is mainly focused
on to identify the correct employee and make them grow with proper planning and
learning process. This will help the organization to change the current state
of skill levels to a better state of skill level through a proper process.
Learning Styles
In the beginning, Honey
and Alan Mumford (1986) did explain a learning style that explains how people
learn in general.
·
Activist - people who are learning from there experience. these
people will try their task at least once and see the outcome
·
Reflectors - People who are thinking about all the possibilities before
their task belongs to this category. These people are spending more time to
come to a conclusion before starting a task
·
Theorist - People in this category likes to look for facts, models, and
theories to learn the task. Once they fully understand the task, only they will
proceed.
·
Pragmatist - People who are willing to try to solve the problem with a
different attitude. they will use other ways to solve the issue and move
forward with new concepts
In an organization,
there are people we can fit each learning category. It is a good practice if we
can find out the most suitable learning process for each organization. Once we
identify the correct people with each learning method, we should be able to
develop them through a planned process that the employee and employer have a
better understanding of their goals. How they can motivate the staff. What
rewards and benefits come after the development. Finally, learning and
development is a continues process that organization has to follow to generate
a strong work force.
References
2018 State of the Industry. [online] Available at:
https://www.td.org/research-reports/2018-state-of-the-industry [Accessed 1 Apr.
2019].
Honey, P and Mumford, A
(1996) The Manual of Learning Styles, 3rd edn, Honey
Publications, Maidenhead
Michel Armstrong (2001),
“A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice”, Kogan Page, 8th Edition.
since employees have different learning styles, can HR cater all these through different training methods?
ReplyDeletethe biggest challenge for any HR professional is proving the return on investment for learning and development activities and convincing the management.
ReplyDeleteWhen there is a training programs for the employees it’s not only benefits to the employee to the employer as well, which bring competitive advantage to the organization. It’s a necessary to the organizations to create development programs, Training programs to the employees to enhance their ability and competencies at the work place (Jie and Roger, 2005)
ReplyDeleteAmir, E. & Ameen, I. (2012) The Effect of Training on Employee Performance, European Journal of Business and Management. 2222-2839, P.139. Available at .[Accessed on May 3, 2019].