Employee Training

Impact of Technology on Employee Training Name: Course: Professor Name: (July 21, 2012) Abstract With changes in technology, there is need for businesses to seek new ways to take a competitive advantage over their competitors. Consequently, the need to give their customers quality services lies on the way such companies train their employees. Continual change in technology has affected the society, the nature of work being done, the way it is being done as well as the morale of the employees. Previous research studies, have come up with different ways in which technology changes affect the businesses today, few have dealt on the way such technology affect the way the organization need to train the employees for the sake of adopting to the new technological changes. Evidently, new technology affects the way a business delivers a product to the market, need to add value to the product, the support plan for the new technology, new partnerships and how the customer experience such a product. Truly, these effects due to new technology cannot be handled if the organization cannot work on employee training. Employee training has been seen as the only way to increase worker motivation, productivity and the general skills of the employees to cope with technological changes. Similarly, the best results out of the training exercise are realized if the organizations are able to keep trend with changes in technology. Discussion Recent studies show that the need for employee training by organizations has been on the rise. Similarly, these studies also reveal that the changes in technology have forced workers out of business because of lack of knowledge. Therefore, the organizations embark in training programs to equip the employees with skills, work concepts, improve their attitude and improve productivity (Cole, 2002). Consequently, other organizations have struggled to keep hold of their employees who are equipped with technology because of competition for their hi...