Need for re-skilltraining towards make in India initiative

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Anita Singh
Rinku Sanjeev
صندلی اداری

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With rapid change in global environment and technology, Indian corporate and industry is facing a big hurdle to fill existing jobs due to shortage of skilled manpower. To fill this gap the government has taken ‘Make in India’ initiative for skilling and re skilling manpower. Most of the Indian IT companies have shifted their focus from hiring to training and re skilling their employees at every level to match the needs of their client and make the organization cost effective. Training brings about attitudinal changes, improves skill, and there by improves job performance.

The study attempts to understand attitude of employees towards imparting Re Skilling Training program, whether employees feels that re-skilling training is necessary or they are burdened by it. The basic focus of this paper is to identify the factor that influence employees attitude towards re-skilling. A survey is conducted to attain the objectives of the research. Respondents are the employees working in IT sector. Finding of the study includes that employees agree that re-killing is important for job growth and it also helps them in learning new technology and skills .They are of the opinion that re skilling provides them with better growth opportunities and enhances overall performance of the organization.

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Anita Singh, Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad

Dr. Anita Singh is currently a Professor in the area of HR at Institute of Management Studies Ghaziabad. She has PhD in the area of Management. She holds a Master of Business Administration and Masters in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations, and EPHRM from IIM-Calcutta. She has published more than 65 articles in reputed journals and International conference proceedings. She is an accomplished Teacher, Trainer and Consultant. Her research interests are in the area of human resource management, organization behavior, employee relations, innovation and creativity, organizational change and development.

Rinku Sanjeev, Institute of Management Studies, Ghaziabad (UP)

Dr. Rinku Sanjeev, PhD, MBA, MA, Associate Professor-Human Resource Management having more than 14 years of experience in industry & academic. She has managed responsibilities in addition to the regular teaching assignment as Associate Editor Journal of IMS Group (Listed in Cabell’s Management Directory, USA). With several research publications and book reviews in National/International Journals, and presented several papers at various National and International Conferences and seminars and written a book titled “Ethics and Values in Business Management”, in 2008, she has been also associated with YMCA as a PhD Co-guide. She has  organized several Conferences, Seminar and MDPs.

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