How training and learning help in development of a Product-based IT organization.

What is training:

“Organized activity aimed at imparting information and/or instructions to improve the recipient's performance or to help him or her attain a required level of knowledge or skill.” (BusinessDictionary, 2019)

When it comes to IT organizations, training is one of the vital factors to get the maximum output from an employee. Especially in product-based IT companies, newcomers should be undergone with a proper training process.

Almost all the Product-based IT organizations start new employment with proper training despite the candidates’ level of previous experiences. This is will help to get the maximum benefits out of the resource. Furthermore, proper training and development will increase job satisfaction as well as the employee retention.

What is learning: 

Learning Curve

“Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior, cognition or the effect, it occurs as a result of study, instructions, social interactions or experience” (Hergenhahn, 1982; DeSimone, Werner, Harris, 2002; Good, Brophy, 1990, 2015)

Every employee will have some sort of induction period this is also called the learning curve. During this period of time, we can see the development of performance against a certain time frame. This is details are used by the management in order to process the performance appraisal. In the IT industry, we can see the same learning curve, but there will be a limitation to performance-based salary increments even though the learning curve hits it maximum performance over the time period.

This behavior has a profound impact on job satisfaction as well as the higher number of employee turnovers due to salary differences.

“The findings gave an insight into the knowledge worker turnover behavior in which only 6% satisfied with their current job with the current employer while 24% intended to leave the current employer, if they get a better job offer from another IT company in Sri Lanka “ (Jinadasa & Wickramasinghe, 2015)

In the current context, IT companies must be more cautious on providing training and facilitating the employees with acceptable wages in spite of the learning curve. In product-based IT companies, Experienced resources are the most valuable assets as even the product change itself a lot the business logic is less likely to change.

Will poor training and learning facilities impact the other organization in the same way?

References

BusinessDictionary, 2019. [Online]
Available at: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/training.html
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Hergenhahn, 1982; DeSimone, Werner, Harris, 2002; Good, Brophy, 1990, 2015. [Online]
Available at: http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/isd/definitions.html
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Jinadasa, L. & Wickramasinghe, V., 2015. University of Kelaniya. [Online]
Available at: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/jspui/handle/123456789/5871
[Accessed 15 04 2019].