Discuss about the Training And Development Competencies Redefined.
Training has become a necessary requirement in all the organizations in the contemporary world. In the earlier times training was not considered to be an important part. The organization practiced a traditional form of doing business. In the contemporary world all the industries follow a strict process of training. They believe in the grooming of the body language of the employees which is possible only through a systematic training. The organization that has been selected in this particular study is Marriott. It is one of the leading chain of the hospitality sector. Marriott international is an American multinational diversified hospitality company that manages and franchises a broad portfolio of hotels (“Hotels & Resorts | Book your Hotel directly with Marriott”, 2018). They offer luxurious stay to their customers along with the best food and best services. Marriott has different brands like the classic luxury brands, distinctive luxury brands, classic premium brands, classic select brands, distinctive select brands, classic longer stays and distinctive longer stays. They have huge chain of staffs and workers globally.
The hospitality sector at times have several gaps in it. These gaps can turn out to be harmful for the organization. The choices and the preferences of the guests should be kept in mind in this sector. The gaps sometimes include the complaint of the guests due to poor service. The real cause of the gaps is the lack of training that the employees have. The poor quality of service and poor behaviour of the management can enlarge the gap. The gaps can be removed by designing an effective training process. This pertains to all the departments of the industry. A training can improve the areas where the performance is lacking. The lack of training can lead to various negative consequences. The employees might turn unhappy in case he or she is unable to satisfy his or her job role. The training can help the employees top understand their job roles. This upgrades the morale of the employees. In case an employer is unable to understand the job role he or she is unable to give high production. The training specifies the functions and the duties of an employee which makes it easier for the employees to perform well (Salas et al., 2012). The employees who are not well skilled it becomes difficult for them to understand well, this is the reason they seek help. In order to eradicate this process of confusion the training is required. Training makes the working environment safe for others to work. The untrained employees are harmful for the organization. For example, if a cook is not trained he might end up in meeting with some kind of accidents or injuries. In the hospitality the unskilled employees can cause the fatal problem that might lead to the problem caused due to heavy-duty machinery and hazardous materials. One of the most upsetting loss is losing out the potential customers. The customer have the full chance of making a decision. If they does not like the service of one hotel, they have the complete power to shift their choice to some other hotel. These are the reasons of the importance of training. The training program should be designed according to the designation of the hotel staffs. For example, a separate training program should be designed for the chef, for the managers, for the HR department, for the concierge, for the event partner, for the porter, for the waiter or waitress and for the house keeping staffs (Arneson, Rothwell & Naughton, 2013).
The participants of the training are the staffs of all the departments of the hotel. This might include the executive chef, the managers of all levels, the porter, the waiters or the waitress, the concierge and the house keeping staffs. There should be one common training program for all the staffs of the hotel and there should be separate training as well for the staffs who belong to all the different designations (Ford, 2014).
In the proposed training the persons who need to participate in the training are the general managers, the concierge and the HR of the company. These belong to the department where they are supposed to have a direct conversation with the customers and the staffs working under them (Grohmann & Kauffeld, 2013).
The training might turn out to be a benefit to the participants as well as the organization.
Participants: The training might turn out to be an effective one for the general managers. There are many managers in one single branch of Marriott. The job of the managers is to manage all the functions that are related to the customers directly. They form an integral part of the organization. They are responsible for all the smooth functioning of the hotel. The training will motivate them to do their job. The managers are supposed to motivate the staffs who work under them. The manager needs to perform the duties like planning and organizing the accommodation, promoting the brand of the hotel, achieve the profit targets. The job of the managers include the greetings and the arrangement related to the customer satisfaction. The training would serve as a guide to the managers. The trainings might turn out to be an effective source of learning the managerial skills. The training will teach them to have a proper body language and it will provide them with the knowledge of the way in which they should perform their job. Other than the concierge learns to sharpen his personality as he is in direct communication with the customers. The training teaches the ways of dealing the customers and it teaches to use the technical terms, some specific dialects that might impress the customers. The training can be beneficial for the people in the HR department and the housekeeping staff as well. The HR is supposed to make the working environment healthy and safe for the others to work. The training offers effective strategy that can be helpful for the participants (Tahir et al., 2014).
Organization: The employees and the workers are given the training that indirectly benefits the organization. The employees are able to groom their personalities like having a soft skill communication style, which is extremely necessary in the hospitality sector. The trainings highlights the job role of the employees which is beneficial for the company. This would increase the productivity of the employees that would benefit the organization. This have a positive impact on the revenue of the organization (DAnnunzio-green & Teare, 2018).
The training program would contain the managerial skills and the different styles of leadership that would help in enhancing the skill of the employees. The plan will be divided into three distinct programs. The first training would be concentrated on the managers, the second on the HR department and the third would be the training given to the concierge and the house keeping staffs. The trainer would plan to teach the different theories of leadership, like the transformational theory, democratic theory that might be beneficial for the company. The trainer might be able to make a clear difference between the negative theory of leadership and the positive theory of leadership. The training program would constitute of a proper agenda. This would include the entire details of the program that might include the speech of the managing director, the speech of the executive directors and the speech of one of more trainer (McPhail et al., 2015).
The primary objective of the plan is to motivate the employees to give a higher amount of production and to give efficient work.
The other objective of the training program is to uplift the structure of the company. The regular training programs enables the organization to have a proper structure.
The other objective is to make the employees to understand their job roles and to avoid confusion related to the jobs.
The final objective is to keep the working environment safe and friendly that helps the employees to work with more interest inside the organization (Vasquez, 2014).
The training program should be scheduled in the evening after the service hour. It is not possible in the hotel industry to give every employee off on the same day and same time. This is the reason the training program for them have to be arranged in different batches. The program has to be conducted on the rotational basis after the service hour of the employees. The hotel service is operated 24 hours and 7 days. The employees belonging to all the designations serve six day to the organization. The training activity has to be conducted after their working hour in rotational batch. In order to conduct the training a training room is required that can be done in the banquet of the hotel itself. Apart from the venue, there are certain materials required for the training like the projector, laptop, medium of giving the training and most importantly a trainer for delivering the training (Prayag & Hosany, 2015).
The method of delivery for the training can be on-the job training. The employees are assigned to a more experienced employees or manger to learn the skills that is needed for the job. In this case the method of web-based training is made to use. This might include the training given to the participants using technology. This is precisely called the synchronous learning system. The instructor seeks help of the computer, internet facilities to provide training to the participants. It can be cost effective as no travel is required in this. This is an appropriate method for safe training, technical training, soft-skills training and job-skills training (Dhar, 2015).
The trainer must be confident about his body language. The trainer should present the topic of lecture directly to the participants. The trainer must understand the power of acceptability of the participant and must deliver the training accordingly. The trainer must make the trainer interesting by preparing visual slides that can be attractive for the participants. The trainer must be apolitical in his approach and he should be careful so that he does not hurt the sentiment of others during giving the training (Prayag & Hosany, 2015).
After the training program the trainer must conduct a follow-up session of the participants. It will help the trainers to understand the pitfalls of the training and the areas where he can make improvements (Gray et al., 2016).
The initial requirement that would facilitate the design is the faculty of trainer. The company must appoint qualified and experienced trainer that would be able to give quality training to the employees. Apart from this there should be training materials and good venue and facility of foods in case of training that are usually of long tenure. In case of implementation and evaluation, the participants of the training must be able to give their feedbacks through questionnaires (Tracey et al., 2015).
Apart from this the participants must be handed the list of hand outs regarding the training, like the books related to the customer service and the important aspects of the hospitality sector. Apart from this the participants should be given the soft copy of the powerpoint presentation so that it is easier for the trainees to follow the training (Chang & Busser, 2017).
The technologies that is required for conducting the training is a computer, a projector or LED screen, the internet connection and the powerpoint presentation. Apart from this the venue should have adequate light in the room and equipment like microphone and videos so that the training can be audible to the participants.
The location of the training program can be inside the hotel itself in the banquet. The banquet of the hotel can accommodate many people at a time. The banquets are ideal venue for conducting trainings. The arrangement of lunch and snacks can be done in the banquet.
The staffs are the most important resource of the training. The active participation of the staff is essentially required. The staffs should proactively participate in the training program. The reason of conducting the training is the staff itself (Timashev et al., 2015).
training program for Marriott is one time investment. It will not cost high if it is conducted within the organization. The organization have to recruit good and experienced trainers for the job. The training program requires to have certain materials that have been discussed earlier which might be little expensive. Once those things are bought by the company, it remains for the rest of the years to come. In case the training was conducted somewhere outside it would cost more to the company. The in-house training will cost less compared to the outside training (Han, 2015).
The support of the management is the most important factor in the training program. There are certain obstacles that might occur in the process of training that might emerge from the side of the managers. The managers sometimes might not be ready to invest in the training program. The management considers training program to be a waste of fund. They fail to see training as an investment. The management must encourage the trainings programs and development for their employees. The management lack the vision of development. Therefore this turns out to be a possible barrier in case of the program. The proactive initiative of the management lacks in case of having training. There is no perceived value from the end of the management (Felicen et al., 2014).
It has been observed in many trainings that the participation of the employees remained limited. This had a negative impact on the trainers. The low participation turns out to be a waste of time for the organization as well as for the trainers. The investment of organization goes in vain along with the initiative. There are some employees who consider the training to be a waste of time. Different employees had different perception about the training. Many employees did not find training program beneficial as they were unable to get the desired promotion after attending the training. They considered that some trainings were against their job roles. Moreover the employees have certain set of beliefs before taking the training. They are not ready to accept the other set of ideas that are possible to extract from the trainings. They are reluctant to accept the learnings from the training. Therefore this can act as a major barrier to the process of training (Brazdauskas & Gaigalaite, 2015).
This is a common barrier that is found in almost all the organizations. The owners of the organization sometimes does not consider the training to be an investment. In case of economic crisis the company takes the step of putting a stop in the investment in the training program. The management does not hire the trainers as they have to pay them a good amount of salary. Usually the corporate trainers charge for one particular training. The management finds it useless and therefore they does not invest a part of the fund in appointing the trainers. The management most of the time arrange a low quality training without arranging for proper equipment that is essential in the training program (Berman & Mathur, 2014).
The management does not consider the training programs to be one of the essential need. The management does not intend to bring innovation in the organization and this is the reason they would not want to arrange a training program. Many management considers the training programs to be a waste of time that takes away their time of production. This can act as the biggest barrier. The supervisors and the employees are treated as a means of production by the management. Apart from their remuneration the management does not want to invest anything on the employees. They consider their revenue that can be generated through high production as their priority. These may conflict with the ideas of the other believers who think that the employees should get the training as it would give a positive vibe to do their job. It will make all their confusions clear related to the job. Apart from this the training would serve as a guide to the employees. It would lead the employees to aim towards their target in a systematic manner that will lead to their high production (Kim, Hahn & Lee, 2015).
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