TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN LOGISTICS SECTOR

  Introduction   A company always needs to have their priorities on staff training program as an essential investment point. Getting staff trained will help employees to develop their skills, knowledge and build career advancement to have themselves in their professional. By doing so productivity, customer support, crisis management, problem solving techniques and many other human skills will develop ( Burhan Ismael, et al 2021 ).   Organizations do encourage their employees by motivating in monetary or promotional benefits. The company does invest on the sole purpose of having the company profits to increase; at the same time they wanted their staffs to have become a successful professional. When employees are trained they will performing with minimal level of supervision, time saving and cost effective manner. That is something that the company will be happy to see the company’s performance being gradually improving.     Why training and developme...

Introduction   Soft skills are general traits not specific to any job, helping employees excel in any workplace. Soft skills do include skills like communication, teamwork, and adaptability, often termed as transferable or interpersonal skills. They’re essential for professional success for an employee. Enhancing the skills will be having a great uproar for an employee in terms of his professional advancement ( Schulz, B., 2008 ).     What Are Soft Skills?   Below are examples of some of the soft skills that can be viewed in an employs ( Vasanthakumari, S., 2019 ):   Communication Teamwork Problem-solving Time management Critical thinking Decision-making Organizational Stress management Adaptability Conflict management Leadership Creativity Resourcefulness Persuasion Openness to criticism    Why are soft skills important for an employee in an organization?   1. Identify employees who can ha...

  Introduction   In the name where it underlines experiential learning involves the transformation of experience into effective learning. Kolb’s experiential learning theory points out how our experiences, including our thoughts, emotions and environment, impact the learning process ( Dantas, L.A. and Cunha, A., 2020 ).   Kolb’s theory defines experiential learning as a four-stage process:    1.        Concrete learning  In this stage the employee moves towards a sole performance as he intends to do things on his own. An employee rather working on the theoretical application he will tend to move ahead and would like to work on the inner feelings of his own to do certain task.   2.        Reflective observation  Now the employee sees other opinion and views and starts for listening to others voice. As an example an employee working in a Container yard might have a second op...