Exam 6: Orientation and Training

Avica Inc., a Toronto based furniture manufacturer is considering encouraging certain key employees to continue employment past age 60.You are a consultant hired by Avica to advise on whether the company should take this step and to discuss the latest research in to the impacts on Canadian firms of continuing the employment of key employees past age 60.What do you advise? These employees often have a higher rate of absenteeism. These employees often have a stronger work ethic. These employees are usually risk averse and backward looking. These employees often have a stronger work ethic but a higher rate of absenteeism. Many of these employees have diminished mental capacity.

About two-thirds of industrial training results from day-to-day unplanned interactions between colleagues at work.

A training technique in which trainees learn on the actual or simulated equipment they will use on the job, but the trainees are actually trained off the job, is known as

Effective means to connect the firm to employees who have been hired but have not yet started in the workplace include

The list of specific duties and skills required on the job, which are used in determining the training required for performing the job, are found in

An employee handbook is never considered to represent a contract with the employee.

The employer's role in career development includes all of the following except providing career-oriented training. offering career information and career programs. paying for an MBA degree for high potential employees. offering developmental opportunities. giving employees career options.

Identify and briefly describe five different training techniques.

Orientation provides new employees with basic background information about the employer and specific information that they need to perform their jobs satisfactorily.

A learning organization is an organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behaviour to reflect contemporary attitudes and norms. conservative views and news. new knowledge and insights. traditional standards and values. the skills of its employees.

The manager's role in career development includes providing timely and objective performance feedback.

On-the-job training requires facilities like classrooms, programmed learning devices, and textbooks, and thus can become expensive.

It is common for organizations to hire and train entry-level workers who are

When an employer fails to train adequately, this is referred to as

Executives typically do not participate in formal orientation activities.

A structured process by which individuals become skilled workers through a combination of classroom instruction and on-the-job training is referred to as

Hanan is the manager of a busy branch of a credit union.Her role in the career development of her staff includes ensuring all work is performed according to established policies and procedures. ensuring that employees she likes get good performance reviews. monitoring who is willing to work unpaid overtime to get ahead. establishing unrealistic expectations so she can see which employees can withstand the pressure. providing timely and objective performance feedback.

Once employees have been recruited and selected, the next step would be

Negligent training occurs when an employer

Employees with security as a career anchor are interested in either geographic security or organizational security.