Human Ressource Management

05 Personnel Training and Development


Question

Which types of training and development exist and what's the difference?


Answer
  • Two types of training measures:
    • Specific measures aimed at training and developing concrete competencies needed on the job (like coding)
    • General measures aimed at training and developing broadly usable competencies (e.g., leadership, communication, negotiation, etc.)
  • Three goals of personnel development:

    • Enhance specific task-related competencies
    • Foster competencies that enable the person to be placed in different positions with different responsibilities (e.g., management)
    • Promote job satisfaction, retention, and personnel marketing
  • Training: Focused on current job/tasks, participation: mandatory

  • Development: Focused on the future and future job challenges/tasks, participation: voluntary



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