The classic economic breakdown of “goods and services” gives us a false dichotomy of how most businesses work since, to many companies, success involves a prime combination of both goods and services. Simply, they must offer quality goods combined with quality service to attract and retain customers. What is offered to consumers matters concurrently with how that product is offered, whether the product is, in economic terms, a good or a service. Training is one step that an organization can take to better equip their employees to provide the best service possible in order to flourish as a business. That said, managers must weigh the costs of training against the benefits. In many cases, training mangers do not have a good way to measure and analyze the benefits of their efforts (Mosier, 1992). This reality means that managers should pay special attention to whether or not their employees need training and then develop measures to determine if the costs of training are outweighed by the benefits of a more skilled workforce. In their textbook on human resource management, Gomez-Meija, Balkin, Cardy (2012) present a scenario where a business implements a training program and needs to measure the impact on the system on their finances. The following paragraphs examine the benefits of that training program and uses numerical measures to determine how the program impacts the bottom line this fictional company.
Customer Satisfaction First, Gomez-Meija, Balkin, Cardy (2012)
Also, no entity can expect with reasonable certainty that future economic benefits from training will flow to the entity as sometimes training increases the productivity of the labour and sometimes not. Another fact is that different people have different learning capabilities, some learn more from training and thus are capable of providing more benefit and some don’t learn anything and have no considerable change in their performance. Also, the benefits that arise from training cost are connected with the labour which can resign, retire etc and leave the entity and thus flow of benefits (if any) will stop. In short, we can conclude that there is considerable uncertainty surrounding training costs to qualify for capitalization and also the faithful representation which is one of the principle qualitative characteristics of financial statements directs us not to report such transactions and events which are surrounded by significant uncertainty as it can cause unreliable reporting (IAS 16)
When companies train their employees well, they equip their employees with the necessary skills to perform well in their roles. This in turn translates into higher productivity because employees will be able to complete tasks more efficiently and effectively. The quality of work that employees create will also be higher because the training programs will teach employees how to perform well and fine-tune their skills and accuracy. For example, IBM's e-learning program for new managers, Basic Blue, costs $8,708 per manager. The company has measured an improvement in each new manager's performance worth $415,000. For every $1 that IBM invests in Basic Blue, it receives almost $47 (HRM 154). Therefore, if businesses want to gain a high return on investment, it is imperative that they also invest in training their employees. In our simulation, we had hired and promoted roughly 50-75 workers in each quarter of our first three quarters. However, we decreased the training budget each quarter, despite our increase in workers hired and promoted. This decrease in training investment led to a high accident rate and low quality index. When we spent larger amounts in training workers, and in the different training programs, there were direct correlations between increased training costs and the different outcomes intended of the
Training is an important facet of developing and managing human resources at any organization. Training should improve not only organizational efficiency and employee productivity but it must also improve employee skills and make employees feel valued. At Clapton Commercial Construction (“CCC”) Company’s Arizona location, it is important for the company to hire and retain good employees. To that end training and development should be essential and consistently provided to employees at all levels of the organization. Training program should be designed so that it is tailored to the particular function the employees perform in the company, and also so that the company as a whole works as a
Employee training not only contributes towards benefiting individual, but also to the organization, allowing it to continue operating effectively. Improved profitability and service delivery (Morrison et al.2010)
Numerous students are confronted with the awareness that their college tuition is more than what they can afford. While government grants, scholarships, and loans are available, few understudies are still left with an excessive amount of debt to pay off. For some students the only way to pay for college is paying out of pocket. This could be on account of their parents or guardians losing their jobs, their grades aren’t high enough to receive scholarships, or they're all alone. College students also have personal expenses to pay off; may feel overwhelmed. For example the stress of paying bills, buying books, buying food, and other personal expenses can be challenging for an undergraduate to handle. Not to mention the amount of their tuition and the amount of their students loans. On top of tuition fees and loans, there are also other expenses required for school such as reliable
When a company focuses on training in rough economic times it sends a clear message to its customers that it cares about their product that’s purchased by them not only that a clear message is presented to all new potential employees that this company is here to stay.
This argument is substantially flawed; it omits several important concerns that must be addressed to validate the argument. The author failed to render strong evidence and prove of why such this particular training enrollment has significantly increased the overall employees’ performance and satisfaction versus others who didn't report to. Moreover, the author could not convince the readers why also this training will be beneficial without quantifying the enrollment percentage of the Maxtech's employees nor a number. In addition, the author's prediction about the overall economy private sector improvement doesn't have any supporting evidence. Although this argument has some merits, it presents inconclusive information, offering dubious support
Companies who invested in training and development programs in the long run with show that their employees great assets to their company. “Employees may gain access to training they wouldn 't have otherwise known about or sought out themselves. Employees who feel appreciated and challenged through training opportunities may feel more satisfaction toward their jobs (Frost, 2016).”
The owners of these business entities were also dissatisfied with the array of training which the external parties were providing. Usually, the owners accounted that they face a lot of sill shortages because of unavailability of appropriate training needed for both present as well as future business necessities. All the respondents in this survey claimed that they have searched for relevant training programs with economical prices at local, regional, and national levels. But after finding a suitable program, the managers were still hesitant to ensue because the costs were very high and there was no appropriate support available. As a result, the training packages were having more economically low prices and guaranteed general rather than ideal support.
The extremely high cost of higher education is affecting people's lives and goals. The cost of college is so expensive that it is causing many issues. Cost is affecting americans because there are families that cannot afford to send their children to school. A child should not be prevented from getting their education because it is too expensive. Many students get set back in their goals because they have to save up for college or maybe cannot even afford college at all.
The United States was founded to give its citizens the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — the American Dream. Without an extended education, the American dream is unattainable. The declining value of a public education is failing many Americans, leading to difficulty finding employment in a competitive job market thereby, threatening the American Dream of homeownership.
Students are expected to pay thousands of dollars in order to get higher education, yet aren’t able to get a decent paying job without any experience. Students don’t just have to pay for school, some are also expected to pay for transportation, clothes, and basic survival needs. Since the cost of living seems to always be increasing, the cost of higher education should decrease in order to better the lives of the lower and middle class citizens.
In regards to training a strong, educated, and high-performance workforce, an up-to-date training plan that will equip employees with the tools necessary to meet organizational goals. Learning plans will need to be technical, as well as practical. Managerial level employees will have access to a tuition assistance program that will encourage higher education for use within the organization and their field of expertise. Employees will not only be equipped to perform the core tasks of their profession, but will also be well versed in teamwork, sensitivity, leadership, and recognizing various personality types, and how to better interact with them. They will be offered monthly internal training sessions, hosted by their co-workers, and will alternatively host them as well. This allows for fiscally sound cross-training opportunities, and well-rounded individuals to advance within the organization. This will also serve as a measure of the effectiveness of the training program, by allowing the employees to demonstrate their knowledge to their peers and leadership.
Most organizations do not follow-up on the benefits of training as regards staff performance. As a result of this they don’t take training and development as an important factor in organizational growth and survival. Most manages do not know how to assess the return on investment in training, nor are they equipped with the necessary management tools to monitor the decision making process of such investment. It has been discovered that training and development budget is the first cut when the organization is faced with difficulties because most of them are of the opinion that investment in the area of training and development is not linked to the bottom line of the business. Globalization and rapid technological development has changed the conditions for companies and increased competition in the world markets. The quality of a company’s human resources is the key driver for sustained top-level performance. It has become crucial to continually invest in human resource development in order to guarantee success in the global market. As earlier said, managers engage in minimal training thereby not giving quality training to their employees, this in turn affects the overall outcome of the training and the performance of the staff. Most organizations that have a competitive image see more reasons to train their workers than those who are on the lower rung of the ladder of recognition, but training and development is still needed to create a niche. In the light of the above,
The cost of higher education is on the rise in the United States of America (USA). “Technology tends to unbundle stuff. Look how it’s unbundling television, or how it unbundled the music album. The college degree is a bundle that doesn’t work for everybody and creates unnatural market conditions, which is why college costs consistently rise faster than inflation.” (Newsweek) The cost of higher education tuition is skyrocketing throughout the USA. Imagine being a lower class family, both you and your spouse have full time jobs and just one of your children’ wants to pursue a higher education at a university. This is going to cost more than seventy percent of your yearly income, but it’s a gamble that may break the poverty cycle or may end you leaving you worse off. This is the choice that about ninety percent of the population in the USA is forced to contemplate. The struggle is real and the idea of assuming such a enormous financial burden causes so many to forgo the pursuit of higher education because of what it will do their families. So what is the impact of not obtaining a college degree? Sadly, by 2020 it is estimated that a lack of a college degree will automatically exclude a person from applying to over sixty percent of jobs. This will also drive a gigantic wedge into society by polarizing the rich from the poor and creating a larger societal gap.