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A Company's Success

Autor:   •  January 25, 2013  •  Essay  •  424 Words (2 Pages)  •  1,324 Views

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To contribute to a company’s success, training activities should help the company achieve its business strategy.

Training can help employees develop skills needed to perform their jobs, which directly affects the business. Giving employees opportunities to learn and develop creates a positive work environment, which supports the business strategy by attracting talented employees as well as motivating and retaining current employees.

Training can

- Increase employees’ knowledge of foreign competitors and cultures, which is critical for success in foreign markets

- Help ensure that employees have the basic skills to work with new technology, such as robots and computer-assisted manufacturing processes.

- Help employees understand how to work effectively in teams to contribute to product and service quality.

- Ensure that the company’s culture emphasizes innovation, creativity, and learning.

- Ensure employment security by providing new ways for employees to contribute to the company when their jobs change, their interests change, or their skills become obsolete.

- Prepare employees to accept and work more effectively with each other, particularly, with minorities and women.

Several recent surveys of human resource professionals suggest that most companies’ performance management practices require annual paper-driven reviews than include both behaviors and business goals.

Companies are interested in continuous improvement and creating engaged employees -- employees who know what to do and are motivated to do it---, many companies are moving to more frequent, streamlined performance reviews.

Noe et al claimed that the performance management

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