Web Based Employee Learning and Development

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Web Based Employee Learning and Development

The definition of development is a continuous process of systematic advancement, of “becoming increasingly more complex, more elaborate and differentiated, by virtue of learning and maturation”. In an organization concept, development is ensuring that employees possess the Knowledge, Skills, and Ability (KSA) required fulfilling future roles in the organization. While, learning is the process of assimilating new knowledge and skills in consequence of experience or practice that will bring about relatively permanent changes in behavior. Learning and development of employees is also known as the training and development of employees. It is related to the field of organizational activity aimed at raising efforts as well as individual and group performance in the work environment.

            Web based employee learning and development is a system that have been used as a method        to make the manual learning and development of worker easier. It is also one of the many technology-mediated learning and development applications being practiced. Programs through CD-ROM and computer-based training are more familiar with trainers and developers.  To effectively manage web-based learning and development managers need to look at different aspects.  These areas include the design, training, development, and implementation skills. Employee learning and development (ELD) system is using for plan and observe the employee training, career development and the employee’s performance. From that, manager can know or can identify what training and development that their employees needs.  Next is can analyze the employee career development. When using this system, managers can see the potential or the progress of their workers during they do their work. So, from that, managers can create the new job or give them appraisal such as promote them, give extra bonus and so on for potential worker. It’s can automatically increase the loyalty among the workers. Other than that, ELD also can analyze the present program that is succeeded. Using this system, organization can observed whether the learning or training they served for their employees is succeeded or failed. When the training is succeeding, employees can used the knowledge from that learning to improved their performance and development.

            One of the advantages using this system is interactive. This is because, employees can explore themselves about their training and development and  this system is full with colors and abstract that can attract employees to know about this system. While, one of disadvantages is software updates may be very costly. This is because organization needs excellent software to do their work effectively.

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REFERENCES:

• Michael J. Kavanagh, Mohan Thite, Richard D. Johnson,. Human Resource Information Systems (Basics, Applications, and Future Directions), Second Edition.
• TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2012, from WIKIPEDIA, The Free Ecyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_and_development

Outsourcing in the Internet Era

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Outsourcing in the Internet Era

Outsourcing is the practices of contracting with vendors to perform human resource services and activity. Outsourcing is not new in human resource administration. Online outsourcing also is the internet-based version of outsourcing. This process is when one department, or indeed a whole area of work, transfers tasks and projects to a third party company. As they can be easily achieved through the internet, it is mostly services within IT and marketing that are most often sourced out to a third party. Examples of such tasks could be programming and web design, multi-media production, logo design or search engine optimization not forgetting services like translations, research and editorial work. In this case, online platforms can serve to simplify the process of attaining and assigning projects.

Online outsourcing also is the business process of contracting third-party providers (often overseas) to supply products or services which are delivered and paid for via the internet. Online outsourcing emerged in the early 2000s, along with advances in internet technology, as a viable option for SMEs and entrepreneurs who lacked the necessary financial resources to meet the costs associated with traditional forms of outsourcing. Outsourcing or freelancing marketplaces play a pivotal role in connecting buyers of outsourced services (small businesses and individuals) with providers of outsourced services (freelance workers).

Online outsourcing brings many opportunities both for the service contractor and the service provider. Due to varying international wage rates, costs of up to 70 percent can be achieved by Outsourcing online services from countries with high wage levels to countries with low wage levels. In particular, for small and medium sized businesses and Entrepreneurs the Online Outsourcing model brings many financial advantages, as it is these people who have to rely on a tight budget. Moreover, this can mean an additional and often more efficient source of revenue for service providers from countries with relatively low wages.

There are a few advantages of online outsourcing. Firstly, with the availability of online outsourcing, companies can focus on our core business. This is so because with the internet everything is at our fingertips. Managers can find a variety of information via the internet. Besides, online outsourcing can also help improve the skills of IT managers to find the right information to be used in the company.

Sometimes online outsourcing also has its own deficiency. Among them the organization would suffer major problem if you cannot figure out how to use this application properly. Second, loss of competitive knowledge.

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References:

• ONLINE OUTSOURCING. (n.d.). Retrieved December 4, 2012, from WIKIPEDIA, The Free Encyclopedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_outsourcing
• Michael J. Kavanagh, Mohan Thite, Richard D. Johnson,. Human Resource Information Systems (Basics, Applications, and Future Directions), Second Edition.