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{{B}}Who Benefits Most from Company Training?{{/B}}
According to recent research, the better educated and the higher up the
socio-economic scale you are, the more likely you are to be offered workplace
training. And, incidentally, the more likely you are to then turn {{U}}
{{U}} 1 {{/U}} {{/U}}the offer, pleading family and personal
commitments or {{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}of work. Less
qualified staff, on the other hand, are offered fewer training opportunities,
but are more eager to {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}} {{/U}}them up. In
fact, people with few or no educational qualifications are three times more
likely to accept training when it is offered. In the majority
of companies, more {{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}are allocated to
management training than to other areas. Employers {{U}} {{U}} 5
{{/U}} {{/U}}their better qualified staff as more important to the business,
so they pay them accordingly and invest more in them in {{U}} {{U}}
6 {{/U}} {{/U}}of training. This is {{U}} {{U}} 7
{{/U}} {{/U}}by the fact that organisations are dependent on properly
{{U}} {{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}managers making the right decisions.
But this {{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}may mean that companies are
{{U}} {{U}} 10 {{/U}} {{/U}} other parts of the workforce
down. The researchers found a growing demand for training among
the lower-skilled. Unfortunately this demand is not being {{U}} {{U}}
11 {{/U}} {{/U}}by employers, even though there are strong indications
that companies would benefit from doing so. They also discovered that, despite
the substantial {{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}between the training
provided for managers and that offered to other staff, there was still
widespread endorsement of training. For the purposes of the
research, training was defined as any {{U}} {{U}} 13 {{/U}}
{{/U}}of planned instruction or tuition provided by an employer with the aim of
helping employees do their work better. It therefore included a wide variety of
approaches. On-the-job and classroom training {{U}} {{U}} 14
{{/U}} {{/U}}to be used equally by employers. But learning on the job, which
involved observing a certain procedure and then practising it, was easily the
most popular method for all categories of employee. While many felt that
learning from colleagues was best, very few {{U}} {{U}} 15
{{/U}} {{/U}}the internet as an effective way to train.