Ben is a supervisor at a candle manufacturing plan.Absenteeism is high and often disrupts production goals.Which T&D method would most likely be used to help Ben ensure that production goals are met?
A) on-the job training
B) cross-training
C) apprenticeship
D) team coordination training

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B)Cross-training educates team members about the other members' jobs so that they may perform them when a team member is absent,is assigned to another job in the company,or has left the company altogether.On-the-job-training (OJT)is an informal T&D method that permits an employee to learn job tasks by actually performing them.Team coordination training educates team members how to orchestrate the work that they do to complete the task such as in the previous examples.All team training initiatives involve information sharing and procedures for ensuring that the work is conducted in proper order.For example,in the automobile assembly example,team members must ensure that all of the electrical wires that run across the floor are properly connected to their appropriate components (such as power window motors)before door trim is installed.Apprenticeship training is a training method that combines classroom instruction with on-the-job training.While in training,the employee earns less than the master craftsperson,who is the instructor.Cross-training educates team members about the other members' jobs so that they may perform them when a team member is absent,is assigned to another job in the company,or has left the company altogether.

Ben Is a Supervisor at a Candle Manufacturing Plan