Reasons to train workers:
- Increase productivity
- Reduce employee turnover
- Decrease need for supervision
- Increase ability to incorporate new technologies
- Increase safety to decrease work-related injury/illness
- Maintain employee credentials/certifications
- Incorporate new products/services or equipment/processes
- Help employees meet new responsibilities
- Increase job satisfaction and morale among employees
- Increase employee motivation
- Increase innovation in strategies and products
- Enhance company image, e.g., conducting diversity training
- Enhance risk management, e.g., training about sexual harassment, diversity training
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"Motorola estimates that it earns $30 for every $1 invested in employee
training, while Xerox found that is has reduced manufacturing costs by 30
percent and halved the time needed."
-U.S. Labor Department Study prepared by Ernst & Young LLP
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