Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Illusory Superiority, Job Satisfaction, Earth Hour

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

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Training engaging in a formalized learning of the skills, behaviours, knowledges to do the job well. Need it because job specific skills are different for every organization: job or organizational changes. Additional training b/c of technology: commitment, job satisfaction. Know how to do job, they are happy: difficulty in selection. We (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)a(cid:455)s sele(cid:272)t the (cid:271)est people, (cid:271)(cid:272) (cid:271)est people do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)ant certain jobs. So we select an average person and train them: legislatively mandated. Required by law to be trained: reward. Some view as reward, ex) get to travel to training. Steps in training: needs assessment are we ready/supportive for training. Time, resource, space, as well as support for training. O(cid:373)eti(cid:373)es it (cid:373)ight (cid:271)e (cid:396)e(cid:448)ealed t(cid:396)ai(cid:374)i(cid:374)g is(cid:374)"t (cid:271)est optio(cid:374), la(cid:272)ki(cid:374)g people/(cid:373)o(cid:396)e people needed. Once we determine training is appropriate next step: readiness for training. Social support: management team is encouraging, feedback is available. These conditions must be in place or else training will fail.