Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
If respondent provides training to the employee in most skilled job after the first year in the position.
10. When you do so, which of the following is the way you most often develop their skills?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Provide self-help material such as books, tapes, videos | 4 | ||
| 2 | Have someone in the firm work with them | 50 | ||
| 3 | Bring in an expert | 6 | ||
| 4 | Send them outside the firm for training, such as to take a course or seminar | 29 | ||
| 5 | Take on-line courses or distance learning | 4 | ||
| 6 | Other | 3 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refused | 2 | ||
| Total (%) | 98 | |||
| N | 340 | |||
Notes: Fifty (50) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who provide training to the employee(s) in their most skilled job after the first year on the job, rely primarily on owners/managers/employees (in-house expertise) to train them (Q#10).
