The article discusses issues related to the common factors that drive negative employee behavior towards training which can affect job performance and the entire organization in the U.S. According to the authors, managers and supervisors must look beyond employee training as the only remedy to every performance problem. Some of the elements that can cause frustration for the manager and the learning professional include the waste of time and resources, skepticism about the value of internal human resources and training practitioners, cynicism about workplace training and increased resistance to change.