SiTUATE

About SiTUATE

How do people learn to do their jobs?
Research shows that most individuals learn their jobs in the actual workplace, not in corporate classrooms or other off-the-job settings. But much of this learning is informal or unstructured, which often results in unpredictable training outcomes. Therefore, an increasing number of organizations have begun to use structured on-the-job training (s-ojt™), since it combines the consistency and reliability of formal classroom training programs and the relevance of learning in the actual work setting. S-ojt is defined as “the planned process of developing competence on units of work by having an experienced employee train a novice employee at the work setting or a location that closely resembles the work setting." the word “situate” means “to fix or build something in a certain place or position.” similarly, situate emphasizes that training should occur in the most appropriate location, not in a classroom, but in the context of the workplace - either