Training

Special attention has been paid lately to the trends in organizational training of employees. Due to technology and high costs, innovative methods of class-room and on-the-job training have been being developed in many corporations and organizations around the globe. In today's competitive, increasingly technological global marketplace, the need for training, on-going training, is essential to the productivity and long-term growth of any organization, "Like millions of kids across the country, America's workers are going back to school. But they aren't just headed for stress-management seminars held in climate-controlled corporate classrooms. Today, the education and training of much of the modern labor force is as sophisticated, lively and diverse as the state-of-the-art American workplace. And given the brutal realities of a recession-wracked global economy, it is deadly serious," (Dentzer, 1992: 1). This analysis will discuss some of the on-the-job and class-room training programs being developed by American organizations to combat this growing challenge.

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