Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
If respondent expects one or more job skills will be learned, at least partially, while on the job.
17. How do you most often train your most common employees or otherwise help them obtain needed skills? Do you:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Let them learn by doing it | 14 | ||
| 2 | Provide self-help materials, such as books tapes and videos | 3 | ||
| 3 | Have someone in the firm work with them | 76 | ||
| 4 | Bring in an expert | 0 | ||
| 5 | Send them outside the firm for training, such as to a course or seminar | 4 | ||
| 6 | Take on-line courses or distance learning | 1 | ||
| 7 | Other | 1 | ||
| 8 | Nothing | 0 | ||
| 9 | DK/Refused | 2 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 382 | |||
Notes: Seventy-six (76) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) who train employees in their most common job report that the most frequent method of training them is to have someone in the firm work with them (Q#17).
