Training and Organizational Development

Running head: TRAINING AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
TRAINING AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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The development of an organization can be utilized as an intervention as a key aspects
to ease the global initiatives the organization is undertaking. There is the positive relationship
between the training and organizational development as the organizations get benefit from the
training. Because the training helps the employees in getting broader knowledge and skills
which helps in supporting the development of the employees as well as for the organization
development. It helps in reducing the layer of management and make employees more
accountable towards the organization which seeks in the development of the company.
Organization development helps in the formulation of strategies which indicates the course of
action which helps in achieving the objectives of the organization. Training helps in
understanding and analyzing the different levels of business which is needed for the strategic
management.(Jehanzeb & Bashir,2013).
The training and organization development is similar because both the aspects relates
in the development of the organization, both of them improves the efficiency of the
organization that is the overall effectiveness of the organization through the help of the
planned interventions, both of them helps in achieving the objectives of the organization that
is the short and medium term goals.When the employees are recruited for a job they need to
undergo the training processes where it deals with the aspects of the organizational
development which helps in developing the organization. Training and development is
assisted in having the well strategies which is needed for the organization development (Ford,
2014).
The training and organizational development are different from each other because
the training pays attention in the micro concepts of the organizational needs and
responsiveness whereas the organizational development pays attention on the macro or the
organization wise perspective of performance and responsiveness for the organization. The
aim of the training is to provide skills and knowledge that is related to the job, the aim of the

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development is to provide conceptual and general knowledge. Training is the program which
is organized by the organization whereas organization development is the organized activity
in which the manpower of the organization grow. Training is a short term process whereas
organization development is a long term process (Burke & Noumair, 2015).
As the training programs mostly paying attention in the skills acquisition and
development the programs that results in increasing the productivity of the organization
which develops the workforce which is able to achieve the organization’s strategic objectives.
The initiatives of the organization development aim to improve the overall effectiveness
through the different interventions which is planned which in undertaken for the wellbeing of
the organization strategy. The training programs helps in making the strategic management
effective. The interventions related to the organization development are career planning,
performance feedback and process chatting all these helps in strategic management
(Cohen,2017)