FAQ/Unit -5/Human Resource Management

Unit-5 Training and Development

Muzna Zafar
Faculty, Management and Commerce

Q-1 What is Training?

Ans-1 It is a process by which the aptitudes, skills and abilities of employees to perform
specific jobs are increased. Employee training tries to improve skills, or add to the existing
level of knowledge so that the employee is better equipped to do his present job, or to
prepare him for a higher position with increased responsibilities

Q.2 What are the various training methods?

Ans-2 These are the commonly used training methods

On the job training

Vestibule Training
Apprenticeship programme
Simulation Methods
Knowledge-based Methods
Experiential Methods

Q-3 What are the expected output of training?

Ans-3 Following are the expected outcomes of training
1. Knowledge change
2. Attitude change
3. Behaviour change
4. Performance change
5. End-operational results (the last two changes being the result of the first three changes)1.

Q-4 What are the objectives of training?

Ans-4 Following are the major objectives of:
Acquiring intellectual/job related knowledge
Acquiring manual skills
Acquiring Managerial skills

Q-5 What are the factors on which Thayes and McGhee model is based?
Ans- 5 It is based on:
Organizational analysis
Task analysis
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