Training and Development

Training and Development Systems in Different Countries

Training and Development Systems in Different Countries

Introduction

Training and development for developing work skills is essential for every economy and society, it helps the businesses to create successful individuals, and assist them to realise the inner potential. To, meet this target it is important to set a reform that can help in educating further and develops skills for sustainable growth. Training and skill development helps the country to utilise their workforce in the best possible way. It helps the employee to achieve the organizational and individual goals. Development of skill provides opportunity and expands the structure of human resource for a country. Many European countries have a different kind of institutes helping the employees for developing skills. Development of skills helps the country to overcome the unemployment; it is a very challenging economic issue for any country. High un-employment rate weakens the economic growth of a country, and the negative trend of these two factors results in the Un-employment among Youth. According to World Bank report on the role of youth skills development in transition to work the un-employment, and slow growth are the leading factors which affect the job creation.( Arvil.V.A;. 2007, pp 5). In many developing country where the size of the youth population is increasing, results in the addition of pressure for creating jobs. In developing countries, labour force youth is the substantial contributor rather than the industrialised countries. Historically the trend of training employee for the development of skill has been a private matter. Individuals use to have training at their workplaces; even many employees finance the activity of training by giving up some proportion of their wages. This structure changed after the industrial revolution. The blueprint for entry level work is changing now entry level person requires more skills to compete in the industrial market. Policymakers in European countries from all income levels are now giving all of their concern to the problems of youth un-employment. Due to Un-employed youth faces political, social and economical challenges.

Discussion

United Kingdom

In the current economic downturn, UK need to come up with the strategy which can help to him for fighting with the rising un-employment, one of the important aspects which UK follows for developing the skills among its labour force is called Professional development, this is not a new concept but the importance of this concept is increasing. The important thing which is lacking for the youth of UK is that technological and engineering advancement results in the change of materials. Therefore, when an entry level worker enters in the organisation and gets the training for the development of skills, it soon becomes outdated. UK is Knowledge based economy; that is why the amount of knowledge and information is increasing. It becomes difficult for a learner to retain ample amount of knowledge and information. I think that our professional development needs correct execution and focus that can help us for making maximum impact. The greatest impact will help us in meeting individual ...