PSYC 3050 Study Guide - Job Satisfaction, Performance Appraisal, Job Performance
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Training in organizations: refers to any kind of teaching that is related to one"s job. 1998 typical firm spent . 1 million on training. Leading edge companies spend about ,000 per year on training. Training defined: formal procedure that a company utilizes to facilitate learning so that the resultant behavior contributes to the attainment of a company"s goals and objectives. Assessing training needs: must identify if a training need exists before designing and implementing training programs, types of analyses, organizational analysis, task analysis, person analysis, demographic analysis. Organizational analysis: determine the organization"s short- and long-term goals and compare goals to current state of performance, where organization is not meeting goals, training can be used to improve performance. Training methods and techniques overview: on-site methods, off-site methods, managerial training, sexual harassment training, diversity training. On-site method: on-the-job training (ojt: most widely used technique in organizations, success depends on skills and motivation of the trainer.
