Executive Summary
The report at hand focuses on the analysis of the role of training in learning organizations. Having analyzed the literature, it was found that training plays are a significant player in the modern world of rapid change. If the learning organization wants to move at the same pace as the world does, it should train its staff effectively. The report focuses on the different aspects of the importance of the training in learning organizations, namely, support of a new strategic direction, increase of business-driven activities, a better understanding of the core values, corporate strategy and organizational performance. Moreover, it addresses employee weaknesses, improvement in work performance in the organization, consistency in duty performance, employees’ development, as well as ensures employees’ satisfaction, increasing productivity at the workplace, guarantees of quality of service and products, reduction of cost and supervision, business growth and success, and effective business solutions.
The Role of Training in Learning Organization
Training is a specific act, which helps firms and separate employees obtain new knowledge and skills. Understanding the role of training in a learning organization, it is important to define what a learning organization means. It is an organization that values and prioritizes learning on an ongoing basis. Such entities tend to understand the importance of information and training for staff. Employees should cope with the changes and challenges the company faces and the possibility to do it in a professional manner can boost their performance and profit. Trying to meet the new organizational realities, the companies choose to train their staff trying to meet the changes, which occur in the environment. Trying to understand the role of training in learning organizations, it is useful to consider the external environment they operate in, more specifically the globalization phase, knowledge era, and information technologies. The role of training in such an organization should be studied by analyzing the features of such entities and the purposes they have after the training is conducted. Depending on the initially set objectives, the role of the training in the learning organizations should help a company cope with the changing environment brought up by the globalization, innovations, and new knowledge development.
Body of the Report
Training plays an important role in organizations since the high level of competition and increased level of globalization require the organization to constantly change and develop itself not to fall behind. Pursuing different aims when planning training, each learning organization sets some expectations. The concept of coaching in an organization is usually focused on the support of a new strategic direction. Training staff provides employees with new knowledge, which can be used in introducing positive changes inside the company. No firm can exist in the modern world without change implementation and only with the help of staff training such actions are possible. The staff should understand where the company moves and what actions it expects from its workers. The support of the organization’s goals is impossible without a strong understanding of its corporate strategy and its purposes. Training can not only give improve understanding of this direction but also teach staff to apply the acquired knowledge in the real world, helping them achieve the firm’s strategic goals. Another aim of training in a learning organization is the improvement of business-driven activities in order to support the movement of the company in a chosen direction. Speaking about such activities, business optimization is closely connected to IT development. Ensuring a venture’s success is unimaginable without advanced information technologies, so it is important to guarantee that the employees understand what should be done in this regard. Working with sophisticated hardware and software may be difficult, thus, the chief objective of the training is to guarantee that employees are able to accomplish the tasks using these technologies exactly in a way the management requ