Training Employees
» Training Employees, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2005
If respondent provides training to the employee in most common job after the first year in the position.
21. When you do so, which of the following is the way you most often develop their skills?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Provide self-help materials, such as books tapes and videos | 5 | ||
| 2 | Have someone in the firm work with them | 62 | ||
| 3 | Bring in an expert | 7 | ||
| 4 | Send them outside the firm for training, such as to a course or seminar | 21 | ||
| 5 | Take on-line courses or distance learning | 2 | ||
| 6 | Other | 1 | ||
| 7 | DK/Refused | 1 | ||
| Total (%) | 99 | |||
| N | 362 | |||
Notes: Sixty-two (62) percent of small employers (employing 5 to 250 people) rely primarily on owners/managers/employees to train an employee in the most common job who has successfully completed one year on the job (Q#21).
