Human Resource

Management
Training and Development in Sun Microsystems

V.Arun Kumar
1st Year MBA(A)
111071015
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational vendor of computers, computer components,
computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982. The
company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west
campus of the Agnews Developmental Center.

Products include computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well
as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software
products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software,
and identity management applications. Other technologies of note include the Java platform,
MySQL and NFS. Sun is a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a
major contributor to open source software.

On April 20, 2009, Sun and Oracle Corporation announced that they entered into a definitive
agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun for US$7.4 billion. Sun shareholders approved
the acquisition on July 16, 2009. As of November 2009 the acquisition is pending regulatory
approvals.

Sun's manufacturing facilities are located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

Sun’s Human Resource Management Systems encompass:

1. Payroll
2. Work Time
3. Benefits Administration
4. HR management Information system
5. Recruiting
6. Training/Learning Management System
7. Performance Record
8. Employee Self-Service

The training module provides a system for organizations to administer and track employee
training and development efforts. The system, normally called a Learning Management System
if a standalone product, allows HR to track education, qualifications and skills of the employees,
as well as outlining what training courses, books, CDs, web based learning or materials are
available to develop which skills. Courses can then be offered in date specific sessions, with
delegates and training resources being mapped and managed within the same system.
Sophisticated LMS allow managers to approve training, budgets and calendars alongside
performance management and appraisal metrics.

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Training & Development of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun is dedicated to developing its team of employees. Everyone are empowered to seek out
ways to grow and develop both professionally and personally. They provide training and
development resources for you to grow your career.

Once you join the Sun team, you will receive training depending upon the role you have in your
organization. You might have a structured training program, or you might learn on the job -
either on your own or from your manager, a mentor and/or your colleagues. Regardless of your
initial training experience, everyone has the opportunity to develop.

Sun gives you the tools to continue learning, allowing you and your career to flourish. As a Sun
team member, you have access to classes worldwide through our internal education system,
SunU. You can enroll in classes that extend your technical knowledge in your field, develop
personal skills or help you better understand Sun's business. Additional resources may be
available depending on your country of employment.

Training Methods by Sun

Team Training Solutions

Dedicated Training

Train your entire team with a dedicated class and save. Sun can dedicate any classroom
worldwide to training your team.

 Multi-student discounts are available when you book your team in a dedicated class
 Students will get the added benefit of participating in discussions that pertain to your
business problems and solutions.
 Available in any Sun facility or as a virtual course for dispersed teams

Onsite Training

Let the Sun experts come to you to train your teams so you can reduce costs. As an added
service, Sun can provide the hardware needed to run your onsite class.

 Avoid travel expenses when Sun brings the instructors to you.

 Elimats extra costs associated with flight and hotel expenses
 Minimize valuable billable time away from the office employees are away from the office
while maximizing time spent in training
 Allows you to keep staff on-site in case of mission critical emergencies

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1. Training for Selected Employees of Sun Microsystems

 Department Manager Career Training

 Section Manager Career Training
 Assistant Manager Career Training
 Assistant Manager Candidate Training

The Training for Selected Employees program assists excellent personnel selected out of
each grade to improve their skills preparatory to filling higher ranking roles.

2. Training for Specific Job Grade

● Multi Evaluation System for Managers

The Multi Evaluation System for Managers is a training program that provides currently
serving department and section managers with feedback from 360-degree evaluations by their
subordinates and colleagues.

● New Manager Training

New Manager Training provides newly appointed section managers opportunities to
renew their awareness of Sun’s intrinsic nature, and to build a management foundation, learn
the principles for activating people and organizations, and help to maximize and bring out
organizational capabilities.

● Career Development Training, Follow-up Training,

New Employee Training
Training directed at young employees becomes a place for learning the basics of being a
Sun employee, and offers opportunities for employees to consider their own career directions,
with training for new entrants as well as one-year and three-year employees.

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3. Skill Selective Training in Employee Pool
Skill Selective Training targets all regular employees, for the objective of effectively and
efficiently acquiring diverse skills required for work operations, in a training program that allows
employees to select from a large variety of training courses.

4. Behavior and awareness Trainings

● Sales Training System for Engineers – Sales Maximization

The Sales Training System for Engineers is a program targeting midlevel engineers, to
help them renew their awareness of the customer orientation, and includes experience for a
specified period in store sales, etc., at major electronics stores.

● Advanced Technology Seminars – Improve Technical Knowledge

Advanced Technology Seminars are in-house seminars mainly targeting engineers, using
case studies of innovators at other companies who were able to develop revolutionary new
manufacturing methods and create new businesses, for the objective of understanding
advanced technology trends and of nurturing a development mindset and the will to take on
challenges.

Reward Systems for Sun People

1. Techno Geek Award

Techno Geek Award is a technology exhibition held annually for the objective of stimulating
engineers, and of sharing and accumulating technology, serving as a place for recognizing
technology superiority, patentability, completeness, and other in-house advanced technology.

2. Employee Growth Award

The Employee Growth Award is given to employees who have contributed to expansion and
development of the company’s business, particularly to people who have developed novel and
developable systems and methods that have contributed greatly to attaining company-wide

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goals through creative ingenuity and improvement activities for expansion and development of
business.

3. Certification Award System

The Certification Award System pays incentives in the categories of superior patents,
inventions, and licenses, based on evaluations of patents filed by engineers, from the
perspectives of quality, volume, and income generation.

4. Sun eLibraries to Employees

Sun offers over 5,000 quality IT, desktop and business professional development titles from
recognized leaders in the industry, including:

 Sun Microsystems
 SkillSoft
 Safari Books Online

Benefits - eLibraries help organizations to:

 Reduce complexity with a single-source learning solution

 Access content on demand anytime-from virtually anywhere
 Effectively support the need to skill an entire organization
 Offer flexibility and accessibility to make cost-effective and time-efficient solution
broadly available
 Provide training to students in multiple countries simultaneously
 Enable students to take training in multiple languages

 Use courses all year instead of one-time classroom visit

 Deliver multimodal learning plan through easy combination with regular classroom and
virtual instructor-led classes
 Use courses as a reference tool that can be revisited while preparing for certification
 Improve flexibility of learning through an easy-to-use web-based interface Offer
enhanced search capabilities that let users easily locate courses and selected modules
within courses
 Benefit from attractive discounts available for volume purchasing through specially
packaged Standard and Premium offers.

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MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT of Sun Microsystems

The more future oriented method and more concerned with education of the employees. To
become a better performer by education implies that management development activities
attempt to instill sound reasoning processes.

Management development method is further divided into two parts:

ON THE JOB TRAINING

The development of a manager's abilities can take place on the job. The four techniques for on
the job development are:

 COACHING
 MENTORING
 JOB ROTATION
 JOB INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE (JIT)

OFF THE JOB TRAINING

There are many management development techniques that an employee can take in off the
job. The few popular methods are:

 SENSITIVITY TRAINING
 TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
 STRAIGHT LECTURES/ LECTURES
 SIMULATION EXERCISES

Other Training Programs followed by of Sun Microsystems

Computer Based Training (CBT) Programs

With the worldwide expansion of companies and changing technologies, the demands for
knowledge and skilled employees have increased more than ever, which in turn, is putting
pressure on HR department to provide training at lower costs.

Many organizations are now implementing CBT as an alternative to classroom based training to
accomplish those goals.

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Virtual Reality (VR) Programs

Virtual Reality is a training method that puts the participant in 3-D environment. The three
dimensional environment stimulates situations and events that are experienced in the job. The
participant interacts with 3-D images to accomplish the training objectives. This type of
environment is created to give trainee the impression of physical involvement in an
environment. To experience virtual reality, the trainee wears devices, like headset, gloves,
treadmills, etc.

Virtual Reality provides trainees with an understanding of the consequences of their actions in
the work environment by interpreting and responding to the trainees’ actions through its
accessories:

Headset – provides audio and visual information

Gloves – provides tactile information

Treadmills – is used for creating the sense of movement

Sensory devices – transmits how the trainees are responding in the virtual workplace to
the computer This allows the virtual reality (VR) system to respond by changing the
environment appropriately.

Features of Virtual Reality (VR) System

Some of the features of Virtual Reality System are:

 It is poorly understood – requires technical understanding

 It is expensive
 It is time consuming
 It is flexible in nature
 It does not incur traveling, lodging, or food cost
 It requires excellent infrastructure

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