FutureWork: The Revolution Reshaping American Business

The authors offer proven skills, training, and educational applications that develop individual employee thinking for total quality management, ISO 9000, or other quality-team business programs. It develops the great potential of using cognitive-based learning to empower people for quality and workplace leadership, systems that move beyond traditional behavior-based training techniques. The authors explain what can and cannot be done to increase creative thinking, insight, and adult intelligence. They provide bottom-line measures for assessing the effectiveness of training procedures and show how a commitment to substantive life-long employee education can build a stronger business and corporate presence in the marketplace of the future.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Preface The Evolution of Management Development Cognition and Learning: The Potential of Melding Theory into Practice Back to Basics: Enhancing Learning in Training and Development The Individualized Instructional Program (IIP) Training Alternative Behavior Based Instruction's Missing Pieces of the Training Puzzle Management Insight Development Program (MIDP): A Cognitive Thinking Approach for Workplace Problem Solving and Creativity Defining Intelligence for the Training Arena Proving It Works! Designing Effective Cognitive Based Training and Development FutureWork: The Revolution Reshaping American Business Appendix I: A Description of the IIP Research Program Appendix II: IIP Quantitative Research Appendix III: Use of Curriculum-Based Measures in the MIDP Appendix IV: Survey of Training Needs Assessment for Business Appendix V: FutureWork Case Study

About the Author :
EDWARD E. GORDON is President of Imperial Corporate Training and Development and teaches at Loyola University in Chicago. RONALD R. MORGAN is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Loyola University. JUDITH A. PONTICELL is Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University. They co-authored Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business (Quorum Books, 1991).

Review :
"FutureWork is a comprehensive text exceptionally valuable for training executives and trainers alike. The book is laden with practical examples. The authors use a triad model to depict a well organized approach for addressing today's training needs. I was personally able to use information in FutureWork to complete several consulting projects. Thank you Dr. Gordon, Dr. Morgan, and Dr. Ponticell!"-Adrienne M. Kirkeby Training & Human Resource Consultant Formerly Training Director Illinois Bell Telephone Company "FutureWork offers the first comprehensive overview of adult learning."-Frances Ryan, D.C., Ph.D., Associate Professor Chair, Human Services & Counseling Program School of Education, Depaul University "FutureWork provides the "missing link" to Quality and helps answer the question, "How can we get employees to be better thinkers and problem solvers?"-Hope Freeland Manager, Training and Development Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. ?The book FutureWork is a terrific example of how research can be compiled so that training and development practitioners can put it to use immediately.?-Training & Development ?This thoughtful and provocative presentation of the role of business in preparing its human resources for the 21st century is written to enable trainers to increase the power and scope of educational programs for the work-force. It is equally relevant to the academic community in structuring business curricula to prepare students to think critically and creatively, to solve problems, to exercise judgment, and to learn new skills and knowledge throughout a lifetime. Each chapter is well researched and clearly written, and contains an extensive list of references. Pertinent to business faculties as well as to those responsible for continuing education programs. Graduate; faculty; professional.?-Choice ?What separates this book from others that promote management and employee training efforts is that it is well-informed, well-written, well-researched, clearly illustrated, and chock-full of case studies and examples. Several features of this book are particularly outstanding. First is the authors' genuine understanding of the deep educational needs of American workers. Second, the authors emphasize a cognitive information process over behavioral approaches to worker training and education. Finally, unlike many "how-to" books, this book actually tells one "how to." I recommend this book to those involved in adult business education.?- Personnel Psychology "The book FutureWork is a terrific example of how research can be compiled so that training and development practitioners can put it to use immediately."-Training & Development "What separates this book from others that promote management and employee training efforts is that it is well-informed, well-written, well-researched, clearly illustrated, and chock-full of case studies and examples. Several features of this book are particularly outstanding. First is the authors' genuine understanding of the deep educational needs of American workers. Second, the authors emphasize a cognitive information process over behavioral approaches to worker training and education. Finally, unlike many "how-to" books, this book actually tells one "how to." I recommend this book to those involved in adult business education."- Personnel Psychology "This thoughtful and provocative presentation of the role of business in preparing its human resources for the 21st century is written to enable trainers to increase the power and scope of educational programs for the work-force. It is equally relevant to the academic community in structuring business curricula to prepare students to think critically and creatively, to solve problems, to exercise judgment, and to learn new skills and knowledge throughout a lifetime. Each chapter is well researched and clearly written, and contains an extensive list of references. Pertinent to business faculties as well as to those responsible for continuing education programs. Graduate; faculty; professional."-Choice