On the Job Training (OJT) Flashcards
On the Job training
The most common method of training.
This method employs more experience and skilled employees to training less skilled and experience employees.
OJT training takes many types and can be better with classroom training.
What are the inclusion of OJT?
a. Job Instruction Technique
b. Apprenticeships
c. Coaching
d. Mentoring
Job Instruction Technique
Focuses on skill development.
There are factual and procedural knowledge objectives as well.
4 Steps of Job Instruction Technique
- Prepare
- Present
- Tryout
- Follow up
- Prepare
Preparation should contain a written breakdown of the job.
- Present
4 activities under this stage: tell + show + demonstrate + explain.
Telling and showing
The trainer presents an impression of the job while showing the trainee the different aspects of it—stress vital items such as where levers are located, where materials are stored.
Showing
How the job is done + explain the reasons for doing it a particular way and highlighting key learning points and significant safety instructions.
- Tryout
The trainee at this point must be able to explain to the trainer how to do the job before actually trying to do the job.
This offers a harmless shift from watching/ listening to doing.
When the trainee first tries out the job
The trainer should reflect on any faults to be a part of the training, not the trainee’s learning ability.
When faults are generated
They should be applied to let the trainee discover what not to do and why.
When faults are generated
They should be applied to let the trainee discover what not to do and why.
The trainer can assist this by?
Questioning the trainee concerning his actions and directing him in naming the exact procedures.
- Follow up
The trainer ought to verify the trainees’ work frequently as much as necessary to avoid wrong or awful work habits from emerging.
The trainer should also encourage the trainee that It Is vital to seek for assistance during these first solo efforts.
As trainees reveal expertise in the job, progress checks can diminish until they are finally removed.
Apprenticeship Training
This has been used since the middle ages.
Skillful craftsmen passed on their knowledge to others as a manner of maintaining the guilds.
How is apprenticeship programs nowadays?
Partnerships among labor unions, employers, schools, and the government.
To which apprenticeship is frequently instituted?
In the skilled trades and professional unions like boiler engineers, electrical workers, pipe fitters, carpenters.
Usual requirements in Apprenticeship programs?
2 years of on the job experience and more or less 180 hours of classroom instruction — requirements may differ.
To be permitted to graduate to journeyman status, what should apprentice show?
Expertise of all required skills and knowledge.
What do journeymen offer?
On the job training
What do adult education centers and community college offers?
Classroom training.
It regulates the formal apprenticeship programs.
Governmental agencies.
Coaching
Is a procedure of offering a one on one guidance and instruction to get better the work performance of the person being coached in a particular area.
It is different from the other OJT techniques because the trainee has already been working at the job for some time.
Typically, coaching is intended for?
For employees with performance deficiencies.
