Understanding Employee Training and Development with an overview of its key competencies KSA (Knowledge Skills & Abilities)

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Understanding Employee Training and Development 

Training involves the application of formal processes to impart knowledge and help people to acquire the skills necessary for them to perform their jobs satisfactorily (Armstrong, 2009).

Development is an unfolding process that enables people to progress from a present state of understanding and capability to a future state in which higher-level skills, knowledge, and competencies are required (Armstrong, 2009).

Training and development is an important activity that increases the performance of an employee in an organization and is a building block which enhances the growth and success of an organization (Oluwaseun, 2018).

Training and development are the processes of investing in people so that they are equipped to perform well and are part of an overall human resource management approach that hopefully will result in people being motivated to perform (McDowall & Saunders 2010).

Training and Development can be described as "an educational process that involves the sharpening of skills, concepts, changing of attitude, and gaining of more knowledge to enhance the performance of employees" (Oluwaseun, 2018).


Table 1: Difference between Training & Development.

Source: (Nilesh & Yadav, 2018)


Table 2: Definitions of Knowledge, Skills & Ability (Cited in Nilesh & Yadav, 2018).



Source: (Nilesh & Yadav, 2018)

 

Video 1 (11:00) Features:

This Video explains the Training & Development, benefits of Training, identification of different methods of training and classify different methods of evaluating training.

Source: (Tutorials Point India Ltd, 2018).

 

Video 2 (8:17) Features:

The video is about Training and Development, together with discussing the importance of the action’s employers take to improve the performance of and better staff through learning and growth opportunities (GreggU, 2017).

Source: (GreggU, 2017).

 

Video 3 (8:34) Features:

In this video, we look at the principles of training, including progressive overload, specificity, reversibility, variety, training thresholds and the warm-up and cool down (Atomi, 2019).

Source: (Atomi, 2019)

 

Video 4 (3:40) Features:

The video explains the KSA’s (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities) with Examples for easy understating and the difference between the KSA’s.



Source: (Sonia de Loureiro, 2019).


Reference

Armstrong, M. (2009) Armstrong’s Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice. 8th
Edition. London and Philadelphia: Kogan Page.

Atomi (2019) HSC PDHPE: Principles of Training. [online video] Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jJJd-PqhQY  [Accessed 28 April 2021].

GreggU (2017) HR Basics: Training and Development. [online video] Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLr-xaQEnkE&t=57s  [Accessed 28 April 2021].

McDowall, A. and Saunders, M. N. K. (2010) UK Manager’s Conceptions of Training and Development. Journal of European Industrial Training, 34 609-630.

Nilesh, D. N. and Yadav, N. (2018) Training and Development and Its Impact on KSA (Knowledge, Skill, Ability). International Journal of Scientific Studies, 6(3)101-128.

Sonia de Loureiro (2019) Knowledge, skills and abilities. [online video] Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZ5k7JXYPs  [Accessed 28 April 2021].

Tutorials Point India Ltd (2018) Corporate Management - Training and development. [online video] Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxI9eQdeec [Accessed 28 April 2021].

 

 

 

Comments

  1. Oshadee WanasingheMay 15, 2021 at 12:15 AM

    I do agree with your statement Aazath. The fundamental aim of training is to help the organization achieve its goals by adding value to its human capital (Chepkosgey et al., 2015). Globalization and technological evolution have created the need of high performers in organizations worldwide. In a rapidly changing environment, training will improve the workplace performance which will facilitate to establish and maintain market share of an organization (Bafaneli and Setibi, 2015).

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  2. Chamara D. JayaweeraMay 15, 2021 at 5:41 PM

    Agree with you. Philosophy of knowledge based on humanistic values becomes the basis for organization’s cultural transformations that makes premises for strengthening organization’s advantage, eliminating internal inefficiencies, and developing the practice of effective decision-making processes (Sedziuviene and Vveinhardt, 2010).

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  3. gagana_amadoruMay 16, 2021 at 6:37 AM

    I agree with your view, training and development reflect employee performance. Cheng & Ho (2001) indicate that adequate training produces marked improvements in employee communication and proficiency of performances as well as extending the retention time. Moreover, when programs target communication skills with coworkers, there are significant increases in profit as well as a greater number of reported positive working relationships that are formed, employees with good communication skills.

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  4. Sandun MadusankaMay 16, 2021 at 3:37 PM

    The KSAs of a employee is the main factor when moving from one job to another, transferability of KSAs can be applied to different jobs, and companies. Training & development is very important to build up employee's KSA in organizations(Lee & Stephen & Wingreen,2010).

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    1. Aazath BatchaMay 16, 2021 at 10:57 PM

      While agreeing with your comment following is in addition to detailed more on KSAs. "A person specification, also known as a recruitment or job specification defines the knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) required to carry out the role, the types of behavior expected from role holders (behavioral competencies) and the education, qualifications, training and experience needed to acquire the necessary KSAs." (Armstrong, 2014, p.336).

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  5. ERANDA ELLEPOLAMay 16, 2021 at 7:23 PM

    Agreed with you and adding to that, To meet the current and future challenges of
    organizations’, training and development assume a wide range of learning actions,
    ranging from training of the individual for their present tasks and moreover, knowledge
    sharing to improve the organization horizon and customers service. Which focus on
    their career development and enrichment, thus expanding individual, group and
    organizational effectiveness (Niazi, 2011).

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  6. Indeevari RatnayakeMay 17, 2021 at 11:22 AM

    Agreed, Training is viewed, by leaders in business and industry has changed dramatically in recent years. Training is now recognized as not just a major contributor to company productivity and profitability but also as critical for the survival of an organization in the global market place. In the quest of a sustainable competitive advantage companies have finally come to realize that, what sustains is the knowledge that is in people in the organization which can be processed as skills and experienced as performance (Somasundaram, 2004).

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