TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT is a subsystem of an organization. It ensures that randomness is reduced and learning or behavioral change takes place in structured format.
The principal objective of training and development division is to make sure the availability of a skilled and willing workforce to an organization. In addition to that, there are four other objectives: Individual, Organizational, Functional, and Societal.
Individual Objectives help employees in achieving their personal goals, which in turn, enhances the individual contribution to an organization.
Organizational Objectives - the organization with its primary objective by bringing individual effectiveness.
Functional Objectives maintain the department抯 contribution at a level suitable to the organization抯 needs.
Societal Objectives ensure that an organization is ethically and socially responsible to the needs and challenges of the society.