This document describes various off-the-job training methods including vestibule training, lectures, audio-visuals, programmed instruction, computer-aided instruction, simulation, case study, role-playing, sensitivity training, discussion, demonstration, brainstorming, and field trips. It provides details on how each method works and its advantages and disadvantages.

1. Unit III

2. 
Off the Job Training
Methods
 Vestibule Training
 Lectures
 Audio-Visuals
 Special Study
 Programmed
Instructions
 Computer Aided
Instruction
 Simulation
 Case Study
 Role-Playing
 Sensitivity Training
 Discussion Method
 Demonstration
 Brainstorming
 Field Trip

3. 
 Uses equipment which closely resembles the actual
ones on the job
 A special area or room is set aside from work
environment
 Trainee is permitted to learn under simulated
conditions
 No pressure to produce while learning
 Duplicate facilities and trainer cost are
disadvantages
Vestibule training

4. 
 Verbal presentation by an instructor
 Lecturer should have considerable knowkedge in
training area
 Used for very large groups
 Used in colleges & Univ. – application restricted in
training factory employees
Lectures

5. 
 AV includes television slides, OHPs and films
 Provide wide range of realistic examples and job
conditions
 One-way system of communication
Audio - Visuals

6. 
 Programmed Instruction (PI)
 Training is offered without intervention of a trainer
 Information provided thru blocks, books or thru
teaching machine
 After reading each block of material, learner should
answer questions about it
 Feedback in the form of correct answers is provided
after each response
 Present questions & facts/problems – allow trainee to
respond – provide feedback on accuracy – if answer is
correct, allow trainee to proceed to next block
Special Study

7. 
 Computer Aided Instructions (CAI)
 Extension of PI method
 The speed, memory and data-manipulation
capabilities of computer permit greater utilisation of
basic PI concept
 Learner’s response may determine the frequency and
difficulty level of next frame
Special Study (CONT..)

8. 
 A Simulator is any kind of equipment or technique that
duplicates as nearly as possible the actual conditions
encountered on the job
 Attempt to create realistic decision-making environment
for trainee
 Ex: Activities of an organization may be simulated and
trainee may be asked to make a decision in support of
those activities
 Feed back on decision is given
 Learning pace is created
 Widely used simulations are – Vestibule training, case
study, role play
Simulation

9. 
 Written description of an actual situation
 Provokes reader with the need to decide on what is going
on
 What the situation really is? Or what the problems are?
And what should be done?
 Cases are attempts to describe in accurate the real
problems faced by managers – trainees can determine
problems – analyze causes – develop alternative solutions
– select best one and implement it
 Excellent opportunity for individuals to defend their
analytical and judgmental abilities
Case Study

10. 
 Focuses on emotional (human relations) issues rather
than actual ones
 Essence of role playing is to create a realistic
situation as in case study
 Have the trainees assume the parts of specific
personalities in the situation
Role Playing

11. 
 ST uses small no. of trainees (less than 12)
 Meet with a passive trainer and gain insight into their
own & other's behavior
 Meetings have no agenda – held away from workplace
 Questions deal with “here & now” of the group process
 Discussions focus on “why participants behave as they
do, how they perceive one another and the feelings and
emotions generated in the interaction process”
 Other names
 Laboratory training
 Encounter Groups
 T- Groups (Training Groups)
Sensitivity Training

12. 
 To provide participants with increased awareness of their
own behavior and how others perceive them
 To provide greater sensitivity to the behaviors of others,
and increased understanding of group processes
 Specific results
 Increased ability to emphasize with others
 Improved listening skills
 Greater openness
 Increased tolerance of individual differences
 Increased conflict resolution skills
Objectives of ST

13. 
 Once the training is over, the participants are
themselves again
 They resort to their old habits
Disadvantages of ST

14. 
 A lecturer uses this method to support, elaborate,
explain, expand or interact
 Improves two way communication
Discussion

15. 
 Physical display of form, outline or substance of an
object/ event
 In laboratories
 In shop floors
Demonstration

16. 
 Idea generation method
 Creative solution to problems
 Trainees should deliberately come out with different
solutions to a problem
 Not only come out with ideas but also spark off from
associations with other people's ideas by developing
and refining them
Brainstorming

17. 
 A field work or FT is a journey by a group of people
to place away from a normal environment
 Purpose of trip will be –
 Observation for education
 Non-experimental research
 Provide experience outside normal everyday activity
Field Trip