Assignment 1: Training and Development in Small Businesses

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Assignment 1: Training and Development in Small Businesses

Due Week 4 and worth 240 points

Select a small business with which you are familiar. Imagine that you have been called into that business to provide a consultation on training. Create a comprehensive training proposal for the business.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

  1. Analyze key elements of training and development geared toward improving the performance of the specific small business for which you are consulting.
  2. Predict three to five (3-5) potential challenges that the managers or owners of the business could face in addressing organizational performance.
  3. Justify the effects of detecting organizational gaps in small business, providing examples to explain the rationale.
  4. Propose a competitive training strategy that will improve the position of the business in the market. The strategy should include, at a minimum, an agenda of training activities, rationale for instructional strategies used, and the return on investment (ROI) that will be gained from the strategy you have developed.
  5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources
  6. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
    3. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Analyze concepts, meanings, and trends in training.
  • Justify the importance of aligning training with organizational strategy.
  • Evaluate theories associated with learning, motivation, and employee performance.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in training and development.
  • Write clearly and concisely about training and development using proper writing mechanics.

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Running Head: Training and Development in Small Businesses

Training and Development in Small Businesses

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This discussion aims at creating a broad training for small businesses such as
wholesalers. The discussion analyzes the key training and development elements, predicts
potential challenges for managers and business owners, justifies the effects of detecting
organizational gaps and proposes reasonable training strategies which probably advance the
situation of the business.
Question 1
Generally, training and development are elements both used together in the overall
development of a business and training of its employees. Training is aimed at achieving specific
goals like the operation of machines and carrying out the entire business activities while
development focuses on diverse programs that include leadership skills, goal setting, and
decision making situations. Training instills the necessary knowledge, skills and positive
attitudes in the employees hence the performance of the business shoots up. Training
communicates useful information on the kind of behavior employees should uphold at work
place.
Training helps in enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the specific work area in
the business by giving knowledge on the best practices at work. Training differs among the
employees, the groups in the business, and the different work classes due to the difference in
attitudes and skills of the people. This creates an advantage for the different types of skilled of
employees can still engage into a similar group with impacting similar individual capacities
hence the business succeeds. Training is key in Human Resource Management as it is concerned
with way individual and organizational activities are conducted, aiming at improving individual,

Training and Development in Small Business

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group and general organizational activities. Training is important in the management and
managerial skills in small business enterprises. Lack of training limits technical skills necessary
for maintenance hence it did poorly leading to mach...


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