Compare and Contrast Essay

BANGALORE MANAGEMENT ACADEMY

COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY:

Quality specific training versus Job specific training.

SUBMITTED TO

MRS. SHAILAJA V.

SUBMITTED BY

PETHE SARANG SUNIL

BLR0907033052

Compare and Contrast Essay: Quality specific training versus Job specific training

QUALITY SPECIFIC TRAINING VERSUS JOB SPECIFIC TRAINING.

Mr. N.R. Narayana Murthy, chief mentor, Infosys technologies had recently

said that India has over 5.3 million unemployed university graduates even as Indian industry

faces shortage of skilled labour. This goes to show the importance of skilled labour in

industries. Even industries try to develop skills of its employees through various training

program to increase efficiency. Training can be defined as process of gaining knowledge and

acquiring skills for specific purpose. Training helps to impart specific skills whereas

education helps in development of an individual socially and intellectually, both should not

be confused. In this essay I will compare and contrast quality specific and job specific

training in context of an organization, as their understanding becomes simpler in that

reference. Further I would say that both these types of training are essential for prosperity of

an organization.

Quality and Job specific training are similar in many aspects. Firstly, both

inculcate specific set of skills and have a specific purpose. They both have finite duration and

a learning outcome is expected. In both of these training, gaining knowledge by a trainee is

not important but application of this knowledge by him is important. Both of these training

helps to increase efficiency of an individual. Finally they are driven by factors like

advancement in technology, competition and strategies. For example, in a company where a

person is skilled in using MS Excel for all his routine work but a new software called Tally

which reduces the work and is efficient that Excel is available, then training that person to

use Tally is important for an organization.

After looking the similarities between these two types of training let us see in

which aspect they differ, which is more important. To start with I would say that Job specific

training is concerned with ‘mechanical’ aspect and a person is trained for a particular job

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whereas Quality specific training involves training a person for a particular job and

empowering him with higher skills which are necessary in smooth functioning of an

organization. Further, Job specific training gives only job related skills whereas Quality

specific training helps to explore untapped skills like self confidence, communication and

decision taking ability. If we consider organization as a pyramid, then, job specific training is

given to employees at lower level like the workers, support staff and unskilled labour. Quality

specific training is given to employees at higher level where decision making is important.

Imparting Job specific training is important because improving the skills of the

workers is important as they are the one who works. Quality specific training is important to

empower managers to handle critical situations and take decisions more effectively. As

employees at all levels helps to increase the productivity and efficiency of an organization,

training them to sharpen and add various skills is important. Finally I conclude that Quality

specific and Job specific training is equally important and an organization cannot work

effectively if anyone of these is missing.

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