People and Organisations: Principles and practice in Global Contexts, Lecture 3

Learning And Development 



Figure 1: Learning and Development



When it’s come to the basics of human resource management, we want to recruit well and get the right people on board, we wanted to manage them and get results and we wanted to develop them too.

 Why we need to develop people is people need to grow in the organization and keep improve what they need to be doing. If an individual improved, the organization also improving too. If we recruit the right people, it would be easy to get results because the right people have the right attitudes and natural learning abilities. But we know it is somewhat difficult to get the right people on board, so we need to improve them by learning and development.

Everything is changing so quickly in this era, Learning is the key skill that people need to know in the modern world. Learning has become a strategic issue for the organization, there should be a way to measure the strategic value of learning (Anderson, 2007)



Figure 2: Learning Gap




The start point of learning and development is the systematic identification of the needs for learning (Armstrong, 2014). There are various approaches available to make a choice for the learning and development, a blend of these learning approaches should be used wherever possible.

  • Workplace Learning – can be understood and applied by learning by doing and by reflecting on the experience
  • Self-directed learning – to improve performance in current job or to develop people potential and satisfy their career aspirations
  • Coaching – to develop people skills, knowledge and to improve performance
  • Mentoring – to provide guidance, pragmatic advice by using trained individuals
  • e-learning – network and web-based technology to defining the system, encourage access, advising and assisting individual learners





Conclusion

Learning and development should not be just a training calendar, full of events in which people can go out of work for hours or just a holiday for them. Or it should not be a paper qualification, which people happy about.
Learning and development should come out from the strategy in the organization for the successful people and its organization. People should know what they need to know to achieve the results.  

References

Anderson, (2007). The value of learning: from return on investment to return on expectation. 1 ed. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Armstrong, (2014). Armstrong's book of Human Resource Management Practice. 13th ed. London: Kogan Page.
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Comments

  1. Nethra LiyanageSeptember 4, 2019 at 11:38 PM

    Interesting topic .Companies should use blend of learning approaches to get the maximum results.Good job Achala

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  2. PrasannaSeptember 5, 2019 at 10:07 AM

    Good effort and impressive article. Flow and structure of the article is nicely executed. The importance and requirement of the learning explained as the gap between current state and desired state which defines that learning is a tool for organization's desired goal. Good work. Thanks for sharing.

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  3. Isuru EkanayakeSeptember 5, 2019 at 10:44 AM

    Truly training should not be just a burden to the company and it should be a value adding activity.Good article with current issues of L&Ds. Thanks for sharing this with us.

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  4. Razi JalaldeenSeptember 6, 2019 at 3:26 AM

    Good job Achala. However, it is better if you can refer sources from different authors which will give you different perspectives.

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    1. AchalaSeptember 6, 2019 at 8:08 AM

      Thank you doctor Razi for the valuable comments. I will use your advise for all my blogs in future.

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  5. Wasantha ArunasiriSeptember 7, 2019 at 9:08 AM

    nice article. good luck achala

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  6. Malintha GannileSeptember 12, 2019 at 5:00 PM

    Interesting article , nicely explained about importance of learning and development . nice work achala

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    1. AchalaSeptember 13, 2019 at 2:01 AM

      Thank you Malintha for your valuable comments

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  7. JinendranSeptember 13, 2019 at 8:53 PM

    Good article Achala, training cannot be a calendar event, it should be a meaning full event and come out in line with organization strategy.

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    1. AchalaSeptember 16, 2019 at 11:18 AM

      That is correct Jenendran, Training calendar should be used to develop individuals in the organization towards its success. Thanks for your valuable comments.

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  8. Anupama KankanamgeSeptember 16, 2019 at 8:46 AM

    Different type of learnings give different type of knowledge. Very good article Achala. Good luck..

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    1. AchalaSeptember 16, 2019 at 11:20 AM

      Thanks Anupama for your comments. Yes, as you said we need to have skilled set of employees to develop any organization.

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  9. NamilaOctober 1, 2019 at 11:48 PM

    Interesting article , nicely explained about importance of learning and development . nice work achala

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  10. Jehan RahimanOctober 5, 2019 at 9:36 PM

    It is important to identify the learning styles of employees before coaching or training them. It will save more money & efficiency where every employee will gain knowledge which will help to achieve the organisational goals. Good job Achala.

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  11. Milhan - MBA BlogOctober 7, 2019 at 1:41 AM

    Learning and Development is an important tool to motivate the employee, and it will lead the employee to grow and feel valued in the organisation through Development and end in greater job satisfaction.

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