Job training , Job design

1. On The Job Training, Job Design,
Computer Based Training.
AADIL
MOHAMMED

2. What is on-the-job-training?
 On-the-job-training (OJT) is simply the training that an employee receives
at work during the normal work day
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3. How can OJT be used in your
organization?
 To teach a single skill or task
 Multiple programs
 Used to help teach tasks within a work process
 Used in conjunction with other types of training procedures
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4. Summary
 OJT is important because it grounded in real-life practice
 Employees learn through practice, feedback, and guidance
 Structured OJT includes preparing the trainee, presenting the training,
requiring a response, providing feedback, evaluating performance.
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5. Job Design
 Job design involves specifying the content and methods of a job
 What will be done
 Who will do the job
 How the job will be done
 Where the job will be done
 Ergonomics: Incorporation of human factors in the design of the
workplace
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6. Job Design Success
Successful job design must be:
 Carried out by experienced personnel with the necessary
training and background
 Consistent with the goals of the organization
 In written form
 Understood and agreed to by both management and
employees
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7. Specialization in Business: Advantages
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Low education and
skill requirements
responsibilities
Little mental effort
For Management:
1. Simplifies training
2. High productivity
3. Low wage costs
For Labor:
1.
2. Minimum
3.
needed

8. Specialization in Business: Disadvantages
1. Monotonous work
2. Limited opportunities
for advancement
3. Little control over work
4. Little opportunity for
For Management:
1. Difficult to motivate
quality
2. Worker dissatisfaction,
possibly resulting in
absenteeism, high
turnover, disruptive
tactics, poor attention
to quality
ForLabor:
self-fulfillment
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9. Challenges of Computer-Based
Training
 You are writing for the screen, so you must say more with less.
 You are creating an application, so you may also have to invent or modify
a user interface for your CBT.
 You may need to learn an authoring program or language in order to
produce your effects. (HyperCard or Authoring are two programs that
will allow you to author programs.
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10. Advantages with Computer-Based
Training
 Advantage: They don’t have to flip through a book to learn about the
software package or the computer.
 Advantage: It gives user the feeling that they are interacting with the
computer immediately.
 CBT lessons run on some other software; they imitate the software you
are teaching but rarely let learners risk getting into trouble with the
product itself.
 Advantage: Learners are able to feel that they are learning immediately.
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11. Disadvantages with Computer-Based
Training
 Disadvantages: Users feel cocooned.
 Disadvantages: When they graduate to the actual software, they are
frequently puzzled at the inconsistency with the package and the CBT.
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12. Reference
 Foster, S. Thomas. Managing Quality: An Integrative Approach. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall, 2001.
 Franklin, Harriet. “Five Steps to Effective Training.” Franchising World
Sep./Oct. 1999: 24-26.
 Rue, Byars, Ibrahim. (2012). Management: Skills & Applications. McGraw-
Hill Higher Education.
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