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The Employee Training And Productivity In The Aviation Industry
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Types of courses and benefits of Training: There are variety of courses
for the workers of the aviation industry some courses take place in
Nigeria while others take place oversees. Women in Aviation training
(USA)
AC side training (FAAN)
Revalidation training
Pilot training (NCAT)
The benefits are
a. Training keep employees motivated
b. Training prevent boredom with new skills and knowledge
c. It demonstrates to the employee that they are valuable enough for the employer to invest in their development.
d. Training creates positive attitudes through clarifying the behaviours and attitudes that are expected from the employee.
e. Training some organization money, if it helps the employee to become efficient.
The
above stated, perhaps explains why the Federal Airports Authority of
Nigeria (FAAN) recognized that it has to build rapidly the human
capacity of managing it operations effectively and efficiency.
Consequently,
manpower development through training was accorded high priority when
the training department of the authority was established as a separate
entity from the personnel department as early is 1979 about a year after
the take off of the authority. Though training has been on, it had not
been without problems (Odugbem 2002).
Factors that Influences
Training: When a business chooses to train their workers, there are many
factors that affect the training process. Top management needs to have a
“buy-in†and commitment to the training and development. Training needs
to be part of the corporate culture. If employees feel they are not
supported by their management while training, they may not give the
attention and commitment that the training deserves. Training needs to
be tied to business strategy and objectives and needs to be tied to
business strategy and objectives and needs to be linked to bottom line
results. Workers want their organization to do well. Employees that
contribute to the bottom line especially are less likely off during
tough times. Organizational environments are “feed back†they stress
continuous improvement promote risk taking and afford opportunities to
learn from success and failures of decisions. Without this freedom of
allowing changes to the status quo workers are not able to use the
training that they have acquired. Training is more than classroom time
and it can be influenced by (a) intrinsic motivator (b) extrinsic
motivator.
Purkey and Stanley (1991) described intrinsic motivation
as a motivation to engage in activities that enhance or maintain a
person’s self concept. Fredrick (1923-2000) posits that some factors
relate to one’s job satisfaction: that certain factors lead to job
satisfaction while others lead to dissatisfaction. These factors that
include work itself, responsibility and advancement. This factors give
rise to satisfaction motivator i.e with its intrinsic challenge it
concentrated on satisfaction at work intrinsic is what one enjoy doing.
Extrinsic
Motivation: An extrinsically motivated person will work on a task even
when they have little interest in it because of the anticipated
satisfaction they will get from some reward. The reward can be something
as minor as smiley face to something major like frame or future.
Douglas
McGregor (1906-1964) posits that the average person dislike work and
will avoid it. the average person prefers to be directed tries to avoid
responsibility and wants security. Most people must be forced with the
threat of punishment to work towards organisatonal objectives. The
Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is a transport industry
founded in 1935 with its headquarters at the Muritala Mohammed
International Airport Ikeja, Lagos State is a service organization
statutorily changes to manage all commercial airports in Nigeria and
provide service to both passengers and airlines. FAAN is a parastatal of
government which is under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of
Aviation. Her vision and mission are: to be amongst the best airport
groups in the world and to develop profitably manage customer centric
airports facilities for safe secure and efficient carriage of passengers
and goods of world class standards.
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