Question

Person-Focused pay plans is a system of rewards for employees for specifically learning a new criteria.

There are four varieties of common person-focused pay structures: 1-The stair step model: represent jobs from a job family that differ in terms of complexity. Jobs that require more skills are more complex than jobs with fewer skills. 2- the skill blocks model: it also applies to jobs from within the same job family. Just as in the stairstep model, employees progress to increasingly complex jobs; however, in a skill blocks program, skills do not necessarily build on each other. Thus, an employee may progress two or more steps, earning the pay that corresponds with each step.3-the job-point accrual model: It encourages employees to develop skills and learn to perform jobs from different job families. A company would benefit if its employees were proficient in a small subset of jobs. Employees are generally not free to learn as many jobs as they would like. Companies limit the number of jobs employees are allowed to learn in order to avoid having them become “jacks-of-all-trades.

4-the cross-departmental model: it promotes staffing flexibility by training employees in one department with critical skills they would need to perform effectively in other departments. If the shipping department experienced a temporary staffing shortage, a production department supervisor who has been trained in distribution methods can be “lent” to the shipping department. The cross-departmental model can help production environments manage sporadic, short-term staffing shortages.

Companies usually offer specialized courses in-house for skills that pertain to highly specialized work or to work that bears on a company’s competitive advantage. Federal Express sponsors customer service training internally because the skills and knowledge required to be an effective Federal Express customer service employee distinguish its service from other express mail companies, including United Parcel Service (UPS). For more common skills or skills that do not influence competitive advantage, companies typically arrange to have their employees take training courses offered by such external agents as community colleges.

Careful planning and orchestration of training methods and systems is essential to achieving effective performance outcomes.

Question: Do you agree with the following statement?

Companies should not provide training to employees because it is the responsibility of individuals to possess the necessary knowledge and skills prior to becoming employed.

Explain.

Answer 1

No. I will not agree with the statemnent "companies should not provide training to employees because it is the responsibility of individual to possess the necessary knowledge and and skills prior to becoming employed"

Because, employee what study outside in colleges/universities is not the same of what he works in a company. Though he/she have basic knowledge or skills but they do need the training regarding to company work and skills necessary for the company and work culture. These work is differ from one company to another and difficult to the employee to judge what specific skills are necessary for the particular job role.

Therefore it is the company responsibility to provide the training on knowledge and skills to employees to their respective job role.

Hence most of the companies provide training to the employees. Later companies will assess the candidate based on the performance and examinations.