Training and Decision-Making

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Personnel departments face the dilemma of providing adequate training that will prepare individuals for their a new job, with the least amount of disruption to the current corporate flow. This paper shows that in the past, new employees assumed a temporary "training" role, usually working side by side with a more experienced employee that filled the same function. In today's world of enormous technological advancements, multi-media course-ware can be used to simulate real-world situations and teach decision making skills to new employees. The paper shows that this allows financial goals, technical needs, safety factors and knowledge to be integrated into a classroom arrangement that approximates on the job training.

From the Paper:

"To use the multi-media approach to training most effectively, the choices and training scenarios should as closely as possible simulate real-world situations. This may include using actual job materials whenever possible, incorporating the experiences of present employees in the training and creation of the training scenarios, and constructing scale models to simulate technical problems without jeopardizing expensive equipment. This type of training will also have potential value for exposing other individuals in the company to the different aspects of the company's operations they may not be exposed to on a daily basis."

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