Training & Development towards an Integrated Approach
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: During the last two decades, there has been greater awareness about soft skills training anddevelopment in all the sectors of the Indian economy. As a result of this awareness, there hasbeen growing need to find ways and means to determine the efficiency & effectiveness of softskills training and development from the point of view of organizational improvements. However,in spite of the increasing need for assessing the impact of soft skills training and developmentefforts, there has been little systematic emphasis on evaluating the impact of training not only inthe context of training situation but also from the point of view of transfer of learning to the job.This is the question which has been vexing the minds of human resource developers.The traditional approach to evaluation of soft skills training & development has been oncollecting the immediate feedback of the trainees which hardly indicate learning in terms ofknowledge, skills and attitude and its transfer to the job. Measures have to be developed forrecording the widest possible spectrum of the effects of training and not just whether the trainingprogramme has been considered successful or enjoyable. During the course of such evaluationefforts being adopted at ASCI, it was felt that certain problems and some interesting facts wereworth pursuing through research which may help the trainers as well as the organisations toimprove the effectiveness of management development efforts in the country.
Author: Jaspal Singh Dhindsa
Language: English
Subfield: Applied Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6968155192
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