Training and development

Correct answer: A. Staffing

Staffing is the management function concerned with obtaining, developing, and maintaining the human resources needed by an organisation. Training improves an employee’s knowledge, skills, attitude, and ability to perform a job; therefore, option A is correct. Controlling checks performance against standards, organising allocates work and authority, and planning decides objectives and future actions. Training may be planned and its results may later be evaluated, but the activity itself is classified under staffing because it develops the organisation’s employees and improves their effectiveness.

Correct answer: A. Staffing

The governing concept is staffing, particularly training and development. Staffing does not end when a person is selected and placed in a job; it also includes improving the employee’s ability through induction, training, development, and performance-related support. Teaching an employee the procedures, tools, standards, and skills required for the assigned job helps the person perform effectively and adapt to organisational expectations. Planning decides future objectives, organising arranges work and authority, and controlling evaluates performance and corrects deviations. Those functions may interact with training, but the act of developing job capability after placement is specifically a staffing responsibility. Therefore option A is correct. Training also reduces mistakes, improves productivity, and prepares employees for greater responsibility.

Correct answer: A. Training is a cause, and improved productivity is a possible effect

Training is a planned process through which employees acquire or improve knowledge, skills, attitudes and work methods. These improvements can help them perform tasks more accurately, quickly and safely, so higher productivity may follow. The relationship is described as cause and possible effect because productivity is also influenced by technology, motivation, resources, supervision and working conditions; training alone does not guarantee an increase. Therefore, option A correctly identifies training as a possible cause and improved productivity as a possible effect. Option B is conceptually meaningless, option C ignores the likely connection, and option D wrongly treats training as punishment.