BLOG 1: WEB BASED EMPLOYEE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Employee learning and development system (ELD) works for planning and observe the employee training, career developments and employee’s performance. In organisation, this system is vital to employer to analyse the employee career development, recommend training programs and periodic performance appraisal and analyse the present program that is succeed. Therefore, while the employer doing this kind of assessment actually can improve and correct an employee’s performance and organisation’s itself. Furthermore, ELD system can ensure the employee keep on competitiveness and will perform in their work. Besides, it can recommend the training program that will increase employee’s knowledge, skill and attitudes towards their current work. Regarding to employee learning and development system, there are five components that highlighted. There are employee personal details, performance before training, training course, training transfer, and program evaluation. In my second web folio, i want to explain and emphasizes on advantage and disadvantage of ELD system.

ADVANTAGE OF ELD SYSTEM

1. Cost effectively and accessibility.

By using this computerise system, the organisation can reduce their expenses and can save organisation’s budget. It is because ELD computerise system has eliminate paper-based ELD system. Besides, the Human Resources Officer and supervisor can access their employee to get the personal details or information of them easily and fast.

2. Can improve computer skill.

As we know that ELD computerised system is needed the expertise on using the computer. Furthermore, the employees also need to use and faced the computer during the training session or by checking what training they need should attend. Therefore, automatically they can improve their computer skills. 

DISADVANTAGE OF ELD SYSTEM

1. Lack of human contact.

By using this system, the information is delivered by computer only. It is limited only have participated between employee and computer. Therefore, there is no face to face communication between employer and employee. They cannot ask what are they do not understand about the contents of training or problem facing.

2. Certain contents are not suitable to employees.

ELD system is generalised and common to all of employees in organisation. Therefore, it might be too difficult to them to understand and faced the certain content that publish and announce. Not all the employees have the same problem. Therefore, the continuous of the change in the content of the training is vital in order to improve the process of learning.

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REFERENCES

1. Dr. Nur Naha, Web based employee learning and development Slides. ppt,02 December 2012
2. Steve W J Kozlowski. (2011) Learning, Training, and Development in Organizations. New York, Taylor and Francis Group.