TRAINING SYSTEM EFFECTIVENESS
Organizations have started realizing the importance of giving training to their employees. In today’s dynamic, complex and highly competitive environment, the only resource left with the organizations to create differentiation is to exploit the inner potentials of their employees. Such potentials are unique and cannot be copied easily. Systematic efforts made by any organization to stimulate such potentials of their employees and to put it towards organizational excellence can well be considered as competitive advantage. The age of treating capital, technology, structure, system and even managing information as a competitive advantage is gradually surpassing. Along with the blessings of information technology, the curse is that everything is copied easily and known to everyone thereby placing organizations at par sooner or later.
The realization that, developing the human resource is the only way left towards competitive advantage is not misplaced. It seems that it is the only advantage ‘X’ organization can make use of, in the near future, before we can discover anything else. The first stage is the realization of importance of developing human resource. Many conservative organizations have reluctantly started accepting this hard fact. Provisions are being made on the training and development of human resources. To-day there is widespread practice of giving trainings to the employees in organizations. Unfortunately many of them perceive this process as a quick fix solution. Give training in the one hand and get the result on the other hand. Alas! Only if it could have happened! Employees are human beings. We cannot employ the concept of input-process-output so straight in case of human employees as we can do in case of machines......
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