Blog 1: Web-based Employee Learning and Development

I learn a lot of things that are general knowledge to what are actually through the topic of web-based employee learning and development. Using the new terms, learning and development are more accurate to depict the learning throughout the organization because the old terms training and development are too structured.
Firstly on the beginning of the class, Dr. Nur Naha remind all of the class about the subsystem in HRIS which is payroll, career planning and development, performance appraisal, selection and recruitment, benefit administration and also compensation administration. This subsystem must we all know to make it clear understanding about the overall HRIS system.

Continue to this web-based employee learning and development lecture, what are purposes ELD systems? According to what Dr, Nur Naha said in the class and also written on the note given, purpose of ELD are to improve and correct employee’s and organization performance, increase employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities, preparing employee towards their future work (Development program), ensure employees keep on competing and can perform their job well and lastly to help employee manage their stress and work overload.

There have five components in these systems. First is employee personal information like staff ID, employee’s name, age and position in the company. Every employee can access the training and development that related to them. Second is performance before training. This for explain to employee about their level of performance before training like Key Performance Index (KPI), education, performance level and responsibility. Third is training course, the detail about training like course code, name of course, module and training method. Next is training transfer which is knowledge development, video conference and outdoor skills. This function to make sure employee continuous application of KSA they get during training transfer into the organization. Lastly is the program evaluation.

The true applications of this system (software) like Learning Management System (LMS) and Learning Content System (LCS) are important and help more management to manage their employee learning and development. This application allowed recording all the information that related to training management, can record data, storing the current data about employee performance and also HR analyze related to training.

In this topic, I also learn about the comparison between ELD System and Traditional paper-based ELD System. When ELD System is be computerized, so it are self-service, no face to face communication, less use of time and also flexible. It’s different when using the Traditional ELD system which is opposite to the computerization.

This web-based ELD give good implications to the management such as help the organization making important decisions for example, to select right employee to fulfill the promotion, improve the efficiency like cut cost in action process, and also information about training can simply delivered effectively.

References

Christopher Grey, Elena Antonacopoulou. 2004. Essential Reading in Management Learning: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Michael J. Kavanagh, Mohan Thite, Richard D. Johnson. 2012. Human Resource Information Systems: Basics, Applications, and Future Directions (2^nd ed.): SAGE Publications, Inc.

Wendell L. French. 2007. Human Resource Management (6^th ed): Houghton Mifflin Company.

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