Many organizations, when in the process of downsizing and cutting costs, eliminate or greatly reduce training budgets. Consider the potential "downside" of such a decision, and also consider whether there are circumstances in which this could be an appropriate course of action.

Consider our text's discussion of "Evaluating Training Programs" in Chapter $7.$ Based on your own work experience, please give an example of either of the following $($i$.$e$.$ choose one or the other $--$ it does not need to be both$)$:

A training initiative that you believe could have been eliminated because it did not produce measurable performance$-$related results $($either for the individuals who were trained or for the organization$),$ and therefore it was truly a "cost" that could have been avoided.