Comprehensive Training and Development Program for Niru & Co.

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of a training and development program designed for Niru & Co., a company specializing in legal services. It begins with an introduction to the company's context, mission, values, and organizational structure, including its hierarchical nature. The report delves into factors affecting learning and development requirements, utilizing SWOT and PESTLE analyses to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental factors. It then examines the organizational culture and its impact on the training program's success. The report also highlights the value that the program adds, such as improved employee skills and productivity, and includes a detailed cost consideration analysis. Furthermore, it discusses the learning requirements analysis, design, delivery, and evaluation of the program, concluding with a summary of its benefits and recommendations. The training program aims to enhance employee skills, knowledge, and overall organizational performance.

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Organizational Context....................................................................................................................2
Factors affecting Learning and Development Requirements..........................................................4
Culture and Structure.......................................................................................................................6
Adding Value...................................................................................................................................8
Cost Consideration...........................................................................................................................9
Learning Requirements Analysis...................................................................................................11
Design............................................................................................................................................13
Delivery.........................................................................................................................................17
Evaluation......................................................................................................................................17
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................19
References......................................................................................................................................20
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Introduction
In this paper, we will study about the scenario of training and development developed for the
Niru & Co. The organization wants to give training to its new recruited employees so that flow
and consistency of their work can manage effectively. The training and development program for
Niru & Co. employees is created for improve their skills and knowledge and enhance their
productivity. This has been done under the light of certain facts and development theories which
prove helpful in enhancing the quality of training program for the company. Niru & Co. is a
popular company which is established during 2011 ("Niru Pillai | Niru & Co. | ICLG ICLG -
International Comparative Legal Guides", 2017). The main motive behind the development of
training and development program for Niru & Co employees to provide the highest quality of
training in products, services, and tools that will permit the organization further to excel and stay
competitive in the market. With the help of training and development program the staff members
of Niru & Co. able to prepare the future leaders and members that prepared with the right skill
sets and tools or technologies to be self-motivated towards the achievement of greater outcomes.
The trainees that will target under this program is newly recruited individuals. On the other hand,
it is decided that the training program will finish at the cost of $ 11,600. Apart of this, the roles
and responsibilities of training program conductors will determine as per the training
requirements. Therefore, the program will prove quite beneficial for the Niru & Co. to grow
further and gain significant competitive advantages over their competitors.
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Organizational Context
Niru & Co. is a reputed organization that gains popularity due to its specialized expertise in
niche areas of the law like reinsurance, insurance, intellectual property and commercial or civil.
The main motive of the organization behind its quality services is always to offer personalized
partner level service in an affordable or effective manner. It mainly operates both litigation and
advisory work in its practice areas. It delivers the best customer experience due to which it able
to establish itself in the eyes of its customers ("Niru Pillai | Niru & Co. | ICLG ICLG -
International Comparative Legal Guides", 2017). One of the important hallmarks of the company
is that it mainly focuses more towards its original core staff members who have been with the
organization from its beginning. They served as the back bone of the company in order to get
significant success. Therefore, the training and development learning program for the company
will prove effective for retaining the new employees as well as the older ones.
Mission
The mission statement of the organization is to offer the personalized partner level services in
affordable or effective manner. The organization carry or accomplish this by organizing a large
range of training, and learning programs to ensuring that each and every employee will get the
best environment to fulfill their needs and requirements.
Values
The company mainly concentrates on the values of integrity and customer experience in its
working. The core value of integrity helps the company in managing the staff in right direction
and enhance their productivity as well ("Niru Pillai | Niru & Co. | ICLG ICLG - International
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Comparative Legal Guides", 2017). On the other hand, best customer experience value improves
the working of the company by ensuring its credibility.
Horizontal Integration
Niru and Company can formulate the horizontal integration of the development program by
being in line with its objectives as well as the motives of the staff members. Such horizontal
integration comes with the best environment and growth opportunities for the company as well
as the staff members ("Niru Pillai | Niru & Co. | ICLG ICLG - International Comparative Legal
Guides", 2017).
Factors affecting Learning and Development Requirements
The PESTLE and SWOT analysis of the company highlights the different aspects for the Niru
and Co. which needs to consider while implementing the training and development program for
the efficiency of employees (Anderson, 2016). The following is SWOT analysis factors that
influence its learning and development requirements.
SWOT
Strengths Weaknesses
 Good Reputation
 Long Serving Staff
 Strong Relationship with Clients
 Periodic Internal update training
provided
 Not up-to-date with the latest
technology
 Lots of Manual Filing /Take up space
 Old Furnishings / equipment
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 Attentive Guidance
Opportunities Threats
 Firm Location
 Word of Mouth
 Experience in the field of different
practice areas
 More mid-small Legal Firm making
them known through social media
 Regular Training to keep update to date
– Staying Competitive ("Niru Pillai |
Niru & Co. | ICLG ICLG -
International Comparative Legal
Guides", 2017).
 Modern & Efficient process
 Technologically advanced
From the SWOT analysis, it can be considered that the strengths and opportunities will influence
the learning and development requirement of the company in a positive manner (De Silva, 2015).
It is because strengths will help the company in coming with best learning and development
solution with integration of its core strengths. For example, attentive guidance will help the
company in enhancing the effectiveness of the training and development program. On the other
hand, the weaknesses, and threats will tell the areas where the company requires huge
improvement. Such improvement will further improve the training and development program
efficiency which further comes with the best solution.
PESTLE
Political  Stable Democratic government
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 Mixed Economy
 The Presence of rules and regulations
on the national, regional, and local
level.
Economical  Historical standards
 GDP growth was little bit smaller in
2015 (Flowerdew, 2015)
Social  High Population
 The growth rate of population stands at
close 0.54%
Technological  Greater popularity of information
communication technology
 Use of ICT to offer and procure
services
Legal  Reliable and stable legal system.
 Legal rules formulation by the
government
Environmental  Effective transport network.
 Clean and well-planned environment.
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Culture and Structure
The structure mainly followed by the Niru and Company is hierarchical in nature. It is because
the company follows the hierarchy and defines the roles and responsibilities accordingly
(Jazaieri, 2013). With the help of the below-mentioned figure one can easily understand the
structure of the company:
On the basis of the organizational structure, the training and development program can easily
formulate with greater efficiency. This will ensure the perfect integration of roles and
responsibilities as per the requirement of the training and development program.
On the other hand, the culture of the organization also plays an effective role in determining the
success of training and development program conducted to enhance the skills and knowledge of
the new as well as the old employees (Mitchell, 2013). Furthermore, it can be said that the
culture of the Niru and company is a key factor in the success of the company. In the company,
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the employees are effectively integrated and developed into an organizational culture that
facilitates the fast innovation. Such innovation is in terms of better ideas and management
solutions. While the organizational culture of the company generally contributes to strengths of
the business, it also imposes the challenges and limits to the company. The most important thing
is that, the Niru and Company continuously come with changes in their organizational culture to
adequately match the dynamics of the business environment. Therefore, it can be said that the
environment and culture of an organization are its key success factor that further determines the
success of training and development program. On the other hand, it can be said that the
organizational culture of the Niru and Company is efficient in terms of its key features that
correctly fit within the business scenario (Moldovan, 2016). In the case of Niru and Company,
the following features have been identified in its culture:
 Secrecy
 Moderate Combativeness
 Secrecy
 Creativity
 Top-Notch Excellence
So, it can be concluded that the organization structure is the key importance and strength of
company which further enhances the effectiveness of its organizational culture.
Adding Value
Niru and Co. want its employees to remain productive by making continuous improvements in
their skills and knowledge. So, a training and development program is valuable for them because
it ensures the better enhancement in skills and knowledge of employees by giving them a mean
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to learn and express their feelings and thoughts. Such improvement in skills and knowledge
further enhances skills and knowledge that ultimately enhance the productivity of the company.
Apart of this, the training and development program adds value by enhancing the efficiency of
employees (Mealer, 2014). Generally, it can be said that the effective training program can make
the employees of the company work in an effective manner. With the help of training, they will
gain their confidence, and this can be seen in their results and output.
Apart of this, another thing to which it adds value is a reduction in supervision. It is necessary for
an organization to supervise an employee when he or she works. With the passage of training
and development program, the number of mistakes reduced and efficiency in work starts
improved. On the other hand, the training and development program helps the team in the
management of a good relationship with top executives. This establishes a strong link between
the high performance and low rates of turnover of the company. Apart of this, another value that
will add to the training and development program is an improvement in the moral level. It is the
morale that forces an employee to give their best and comes with better solutions. In a similar
manner, training brings positive attitude among employees that further lead improvement in
motivation level, thereby improving the outcomes of the company (Miles, 2016). So, it can be
said that the training and development program will add a large number of values within the Niru
and Company functioning as well as its outcomes.
Cost Consideration
In order to implement the training and development program, Niru and Company need to bear a
significant cost. Generally, it can be said that the Niru and Company is a continuous growing
environment with a high focus towards the employees and their learning or development.
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Therefore, in order to implement the training and program the company requires subsequent
resources like online training tools and various others (Neville, 2013). The following is the cost
that needs to bear by the company to ensure the proper implementation of training and
development program:
Resources Cost ($)
Educational Resources
 Brochures = 400
 Manuals = 200
 Checklist = 300
 Banners = 300
 Pamphlets =400
1700
Hit Index
 Hit Index Training Session of 2 hours
= 300
 Total number of session = 12
3600
Online Toolkit
 New releases collection time cost =
500
 Drop-in article collection time cost =
300
 Public service announcements
evaluation cost = 500
1300
Video Tools 1700
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 Visual Display Unit Cost = 900
 Latest PC’s = 800
Space
 Per hour cost of Seminar Booking in
Hotel = 300
 Estimate cost of 5 hours = 1500
1500
Others
 Furniture = 400
 Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks, and Dinner
= 1000
 Decoration = 400
1800
Total Cost 11600
The above-mentioned cost analysis represents that the training and development responsible
team needs to spend the cost of 11600$ to implement the training practices within the
organization. The cost can reduce if the management follows a proper control structure and plan
everything in advance. Furthermore, it can be said that the consideration of the associated costs
regarding the training and development is quite difficult due to the dynamic international factors
and environment (Nahum, 2014). Therefore, the above-mentioned cost analysis table is a
glimpse about the potential cost that may involve in the project.
Learning Requirements Analysis
Before conducting the training and development program an analysis of the learning
requirements will perform to understand the potential learning gaps and learning requirements.
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