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Question 1

What is training?

Answer 1

It is the formal procedures that an organization utilizes to facilitate learning so that the resultant behavior contributes to the attainment of organizational goals and objectives.

Question 2

What are some reasons for training and development?

Answer 2

1. to bring about improvement in skills and in performance
2. to be abreast with the times and changing situations
3. to socialize new employees

Question 3

What is training needs analysis?

Answer 3

This refers to determining the training needs of an organization, that means identifying the needs according to individual, group or organizational level

Question 4

What are the important steps to take when creating a training plan?

Answer 4

1. assessing training needs
2. setting training objectives
3. choosing the appropriate method
4. designing training itself
5. training delivery
6. training evaluation

Question 5

What are the importance of training needs analysis?

Answer 5

1. to determine whether training is necessary
2. helps in identifying how training would be designed delivered and evaluated
3. helps in selecting who to train
4. helps in getting to choose the method
5. it also aids in training evaluation

Question 6

What are the basic levels of training needs analysis?

Answer 6

1. organizational analysis
2. task(role) analysis
3. person analysis

Question 7

What is organizational analysis?

Answer 7

This is done to understand the role of a particular training in the whole organizational system.

Question 8

What is task analysis?

Answer 8

This involves identifying which tasks in a job should be targeted for improved performance

Question 9

What is person analysis?

Answer 9

this involves identifying employees who need training

Question 10

What are training objectives?

Answer 10

A statement of
 what the employee is expected to do (performance
or outcome)
 the quality or level of performance that is
acceptable (criterion)
 the conditions under which trainee is expected to perform the desired outcome

Question 11

What is learning?

Answer 11

Relatively permanent change in behavior that occur

as a result of experience or practice

Question 12

What is transfer of training?

Answer 12

The extent to which material, skills, or procedures learned in training are taken back to the job and used by the trainee in some regular fashion

Question 13

What is the importance of transfer of training?

Answer 13

1. helps trainees acquire specific information more easily
2. helps trainees function effectively in situations for which they have no previously acquires information
3. it enables trainees to solve problems they have never seen before

Question 14

What is training evaluation?

Answer 14

It refers to the assessment of the degree to which trainees achieved the anticipated gains in job competencies from training, and effectively applied these gains to the actual job.

Question 15

What are the benefits of training to the individual?

Answer 15

1. develop series of skills
2. gets to enhance promotion opportunities
3. moves between jobs and organization
4. works faster and professionally

Question 16

What are the benefits of organization?

Answer 16

1. enjoy increased productivity
2. safer working environment
3. improved employee wellbeing
4. lower levels of absenteeism and turnover

Question 17

What are on-site techniques for training?

Answer 17

These are techniques that occurs on the same job site where the trainee will be performing after training

Question 18

What are the variations of on-site training?

Answer 18

1. on-the-job training
2. job rotation
3. mentoring

Question 19

What is on-the-job training?

Answer 19

New trainees are placed with experienced workers to learn job tasks through observation and limitation.

Question 20

What are the advantages of on the job training?

Answer 20

1. relatively inexpensive
2. no special training space required
3. . it increases the likelihood of positive transfer

Question 21

What are the disadvantages of on the job training?

Answer 21

1. trainer may lack training skills

2. there maybe tension between trainer and trainee

Question 22

What is job-rotation?

Answer 22

The trainee goes through series of job assignments in various parts of the organization so that the trainee is exposed to different positions and departments.

Question 23

what are the advantages of job rotation?

Answer 23

1. increasing employee awareness
2. it allows for both lateral transfers
3. there is greater flexibility in replacing absent workers
4. it reduces boredom

Question 24

what are the advantages of job rotation?

Answer 24

1. increasing employee awareness
2. it allows for both lateral transfers
3. there is greater flexibility in replacing absent workers
4. it reduces boredom

Question 25

What is mentoring?

Answer 25

here, a senior, experienced, influential person provides guidance and support in a protégé’s career development , or takes a personal interest in another individual’s development.

Question 26

What are the advantages of mentoring?

Answer 26

It has direct constant contact

Question 27

What are the disadvantages of mentoring?

Answer 27

It brings about one-way thinking

Question 28

What is the disadvantage of off-site techniques?

Answer 28

It is difficult for transfer of training

Question 29

What is classroom lecture?

Answer 29

It is a semiformal discourse for facts, concepts, series on events etc to be presented

Question 30

What are the advantages of a classroom lecture?

Answer 30

A larger group of trainees at a time

Question 31

What are the disadvantages of a classroom lecture?

Answer 31

The little interaction due to one-way communication