Web Based Employee Learning and Development

            Employee Learning and Development(ELD) System plays an important role in organization. It helps in plan and recommends a training and development program which are able to improving and enhancing knowledge and skill of employees to meet organizational goals. In addition, it also can ensure the employees keep on competitiveness in the workplace and help them manage their stress due to the workload. There are five component including in ELD system which are employee personal information, performance before training, training course, training transfer, and program evaluation. 

            With the web-based ELD system, it makes the process more efficiency and flexible. By assessing this system in organization, it is able to facilitating the entire training and development process from training need analysis to training evaluation. Besides that, it also recording the data and information that are related to training such as current performance of particular employee, training modules that appropriate to employee performance and their performance before and after attend the training. In addition, this system also helps the management select the employees for new position and promotion by show them whose have a good performance in the workplace in period of time. The employees also can assess this system to know their level of performance and what training will be conducted by organization in the future. 

            However, there are few disadvantages of ELD system. Firstly, all the employees in the organization must know the computer skill if they wish to assess this system themselves. If they are not familiar with the system, organization may provide extra computer skill training which is increasing the cost. Secondly, there is lack of human interaction in using this system. Information delivered by computer in the organization is difficult to enhancing the relationship between top management and employees and employees have no opportunity to ask what they don’t understand about the content of training. Lastly is not all the employees having the same problems. So that, continuous change in content of training is important in order to improve the process of learning.

            By using web-based ELD system in management function, it is very time saving because it can process and delivered the information effective and simply to the staff. Besides that, this system also can improve the efficiency of recovery actions in terms of cost reduction. Yet, the poor quality system will lead user to dissatisfaction and it required long time development because it is a very cumbersome process. 

(402 words)

References:

Harold F. O and Ray S. P, (2006), Web-Based Learning: Theory, Research, and Practice, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc

Kelly. R and Casey G. C, (2007), Introduction to Information System, United States of America: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Bondarouk. T. V, (2011), Electronic HRM in Theory and Practice, British: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Teresa T. C and Mario A. O, (2005), E-Human Resources Management, United States of America: Idea Group Publishing