HRIS WF2 : Web-Based Employee Learning and Development

For this time I want to explain and discuss a topic about Web-based Technology for Employee Learning and Development. Every organization nowadays very care about their employee learning and their employee career development. The needed of improvement in skills, knowledge and ability of every employee is one of the important thing that the organization want to achieve to improve their employee so, that it can help in production of the company. Web-based Technology is increasingly perceived as a source of competitive advantage for the companies especially for Employee Learning and Development. Learner’s access information as needed and new skills can be applied immediately, thus reducing delays and lost productivity.

            There are different between employee development and employee learning and development, it is because employee development in term of human resource management, the web-based technologies did not integrated into the concept yet, but after we-based technology has integrated, it become employee learning and development in order to ensure employees have self-directed learning behavior in developing their own career, training, and performance. At the same time, they are able to keep on competitiveness and perform well in their work. From the Employee Learning and Development system organization able to generate various of report for example report of performance before training in order to trace employee who has poor employee performance and ensure that they have increase their performance after come back from training. Besides, training course available can also easily updated by organization and gets by employees without do manually by sending monthly list of training course offered to the entire department in an organization. 

Web-based technologies have given training and development organizations an opportunity to create powerful learning experiences that employees can utilize to better accomplish their objectives. Aside from being accessible 24 hours per day and 7 days per week, a characteristic most people have come to expect, the Internet can also provide equal access to a wide range of people. Employees who are located in remote sites or who have a more reserved personal style are on an equal footing with their colleagues at headquarters and with those who might dominate a face-to-face training program. The Internet can cater to various individual or cultural learning styles: careful study of background information, viewing of diagrams or images, and interactive "learning by doing." Web tools can open many new doors to employees who may previously have been excluded from learning opportunities in the organization. 

Sources :

 Smith, L. K. L. a. R. D. (2003). The role of Web-based distance learning in HR development. Journal of Management Development, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 270-284.