General Management Training at Meadowlea Dairies
This report will give an overview of the current training and induction given to general managers and an evaluation of its effectiveness. Appropriate revision of the process will be completed including the realisation of a plan of action for required improvements.
2. Introduction
Meadowlea wishes to improve the training giving to the General Manager on their appointment to the position. This re-evaluation is occurring because: -
· Trainees have complained of boredom during the training period
· Trainees have indicated that the training received did not adequately prepare them for the job.
Training currently consists of: -
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Orientation programmes should enable a new employee to quickly become a productive member of the company.
· Initial Training for Job Role
Initial Training should be designed to ensure that the employee has all the knowledge, skills and abilities required in order to carry out his day to day duties.
This would include organisation, budgeting, management and leadership skills.
4. Effectiveness of the current training scheme
The following four criteria will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of the training scheme;[1] Reaction Criteria, Learning Criteria, Behavioural Criteria, Results Criteria.
In this case General Managers have complained of boredom during the training period. They have also indicated that they were not adequately prepared for the job. Thus the effectiveness of the training scheme is low, as it fails under reactive criteria.
The cases study also states that training has "not been successful". Assuming that this is the view of the company, then I can only suppose that the effectiveness of the training scheme is also low due to its failure under results criteria, that is to say that General Managers are not producing the desired results upon starting their employment.
5. Criticisms of the process
My first criticism of the training is that it takes a year to
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