The pie chart illustrates the number of hours spent on different types of in-house training per year, while the bar chart compares the attitudes of managers and secretaries towards training in a large financial company.
Overall, technical training accounted for the largest share of total hours, and the majority of employees considered training important for their job.
To begin, the number of hours spent on technical training was higher than other courses and accounted for 30, while the figures for health and safety were the least used at about 5. The proportion of hours consumed on career development and interpersonal skills were similar, at about 15 and 10, respectively.
Regarding training attitude, the percentage of secretaries who considered it significant for their job was over 80%, whereas the managers’ rate was smaller at around 75%. In addition, almost 70% of managers think training is a good excuse for a change, and a little less than 65% of secretaries do. Over 50% of managers support its being good for networking, while the figure for secretaries was 40%.In sharp contrast to this, both workers thinking it’s a waste of valuable time were nearly the same at about 10%.