News: Performance Management
Training 'aids staff socialising'
25 November 2008
As well as offering development to staff, training courses can give employees an excellent chance to socialise with each other, it is claimed.
Sharon Varney, a research associate at the Roffey Park Institute, makes her comments to Personnel Today, explaining that staff should be encouraged to chat to one another to encourage greater mixing of social and ethnic backgrounds.
Human resources can help encourage this, she continues, by implementing training about cultural sensitivity.
They can also help simply by organising training, as staff can use these occasions to mix with a wider group of their co-workers, Ms Varney continues.
"It is the organisation's - and most likely HR's - responsibility to make sure all staff take on board any potential cultural issues or sensitivities," she adds.
Recently, Lyn Witheridge - chief executive of the Andrea Adams Trust - called for managers to receive greater levels of training in how to recognise and deal with workplace bullying.
