Introduction:
Training is a very needy process. It requires patience, knowledge, and time. It is time-consuming as it takes time to frame a training program best suited for the trainee and the organization.
Training comes with a cost associated with it, as the organization needs to spend on their employee’s skills and overall development, which could be helpful in the future by the employee’s contribution towards the organization.
Companies spend a lot of time and money on their employees as they are finding long prospects by treating them as an asset for a long period.
As companies are putting so much effort, time, and money into their training program, they need to have a robust evaluation method to know about the outcome of the whole process.
Evaluation helps them find the shortfalls of the outcome, which they can rectify by implementing changes to the program.
Benefits of the Evaluation.
- It improves the overall answerability of the program. It cost-effectively phrased the project for the organization.
- Improves the efficiency
- A better understanding of the program
- It is a feedback system to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the program.
- Emphasis and increases the knowledge of the program
- help trainers to implement changes.
Purpose of The Evaluation:
Evaluation seems to be a great idea, but it is crucial to understand its purpose. Organizations need to consider the area of evaluation they need to implement on.
Different types of areas of evaluation:
Cost Evaluation
Behavioral Evaluation
Efficiency Evaluation
Understandability Evaluation
An analysis can investigate the performance in co-relation with changing elements like individual performance and group performance.
Failiure of Evaluation:
Organizations try their level best to eliminate the risk of failure. It is a common occurrence where evaluation fails. There could be various reasons for the failure.
Some of the reasons are:
- Lack of Planning
- Improper execution
- Improper interpretation of data
- Lack of Objective
Lack of Planning:
Sometimes, companies are unable to make things work by the details of the program.
Unable to educate/aware the evaluating authorities about the techniques of evaluation.
Companies fail to make everyone involved in the program about the purpose.
Improper Execution:
Companies need to execute the evaluation process by setting up the right goal. It is required to compare the motive with the present situation.
Correctly inserting the data and using them in a best-suited manner avoids improper execution.
Lack of objectivity
Improper interpretation of data:
The next step after the collection of data is the interpretation of data. Here, the data is analyzed to know about the performance of the project.
Any mistake t this level will lead to loss of data, and evaluation can not be successful.
Lack of Objective:
A complete objective program is not at all possible. Organizations try to be as objective as possible. Some of the elements that contribute to lack of objectivity are:
- Selecting the evaluating authority that lacks judgment-making qualities.
- avoiding some of the components of the training program
- avoiding important details
- Failure in conveying the objective properly to everyone involved in the training program.
