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2. Effectiveness of training

There are limitations to what training can achieve. Training is most useful, if it

is done within the organisation, by the persons with whom the trainee is

working and with the equipments with which he has to work. In a big

organisation like an insurance company, the way work happens in one branch

is -mot the way it happens in other branches.

3. Methodologies for training

Despite the limitations of class room training there are ways to help an

employee to enhance skills and therefore of his value. The principle behind

these methods or programmes is that it would provide the employee an

opportunity to learn, mainly by doing, with minimal external guidance. The

method will be most effective if the employee opts to go through the

programme and no t when he is 'nominated for a course' as often happens. To

be announced in enable options being made, programmes of training can be

advance specifying the contents and the objectives and the target employees

(who should attend). Some of the methodologies of training are listed below:

a) Apprenticeship

b) On-the-job training (OJT) / Job rotation