Impact of Informal Learning at Workplace on Skill Enhancement of Trainers

Purpose - The main purpose of this paper is to identify the informal learning ways at workplace and its impact on skill enhancement of employees. Design/Methodology/Approach - The paper is exploratory and analytical in nature. Target population for the study was trainers of Bhartiya Skill Development University, Jaipur, India. The paper has been analyzed, concluded on the basis of data collected from both the sources primary and secondary. Primary data has been collected with the help of questionnaire and interview of employees and secondary data collected from research papers, books, journal, articles, and related work done in this field. Finding - The main findings of the paper are that informal learning takes place at workplace default and it is an innovative tool for employees’ learning. Some ways of informal learning like Participation in coworker’s job, providing training to others, interaction with other staff and students some of the ways help in trainers to enhance their technical, soft, and human skills. Research Implications - This paper will contribute to recognize the ways of informal learning in organizations which further help in to develop skills of employees. Practical Implication - The study’s findings can give organizations and HR practitioners ideas about how to engage employees in learning with innovative informal learning practices, how to relate learning with different activities of employees and how to enhance their skills with informal learning activities. The study can also be used as base to develop learning model in an organization with right proportion of learning activities. Originality/Value - This study is original in Indian context, which tries to find out the different informal ways of learning at workplace and its impact on skills enchantment of Trainers