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Managing Human Element at Work

Notes development. It is an avenue to acquire more and new knowledge and develop further the
skills and techniques to function effectively. Scholars, experts, social scientist and school
administrators now recognize the fact that training is obviously indispensable not only in
the development of the individuals but also facilitate the productive capacity of the workers.
Training is not coaxing or persuading people to do what is wanted but rather a process of
creating organizational conditions that will cause personnel to strive for better performance.
Among other schools that highlighted the usefulness of training. They identified the functions
of training as follow: increase productivity, improves the quality of work; improves skills,
knowledge, understanding and attitude; enhance the use of tools and machine; reduces waste,
accidents, turnover, lateness, absenteeism and other overhead costs, eliminates obsolesce in
skills, technologies, methods, products, capital management etc. It brings incumbents to that
level of performance which needs the performance for the job; enhance the implementation
of new policies and regulations; prepares people for achievement, improves manpower
development and ensures the survival and growth of the enterprise.

The opinion that the objectives of training are to: provide the skills, knowledge and aptitudes
necessary to undertake required job efficiently develop the workers so that if he has the
potentials, he may progress, increase efficiency by reducing spoilt work, misuse of machines
and lessening physical risks.
The training and development aim at developing competences such as technical, human,
conceptual and managerial for the furtherance of individual and organization. The process
of training and development is a continuous one. The need to perform one’s job efficiently
and the need to know how to lead others are sufficient reasons for training and development
and the desire to meet organizations objectives of higher productivity, makes it absolutely
compulsory.

Training both physically, socially, intellectually and mentally are very
essential in facilitating not only the level of productivity but also the
development of personnel in any organization.

4.1.1 Importance of Training

As well as giving people new skills and knowledge, and maintaining existing skills, training
can:
• Increase people’s confidence.

• Confirm to people the value of what they are already doing.
• Enable people to pass on new skills to colleagues in the workplace.
• Raise general awareness.
• Change people’s attitudes.

• Improve morale.
Training can play an important role in improving health workers’ effectiveness. Whether
training is part of an ongoing process of professional development or simply about learning
a specific skill, it can improve people’s skills and knowledge and help them carry out their
job more effectively.

Training
One definition of training is ‘the process of bringing a person to an agreed standard of skill
by practice and instruction’. Another definition is ‘a trainer and participant working together
to transfer information from the trainer to the participant, to develop the participant’s

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