About the Book
This text in its third edition has been adapted to an age of competence-based qualifications, technology-assisted learning and continuous development. With its combination of exercises, comprehensive references and extensive material for reflection and discussion, it also offers full scope for self-development. The authors critically review the national framework and examine changing attitudes to education, the main theories of learning and the organisation as a learning system. Employee development, they argue, is a form of strategic activity which must be carefully tailored to the demands of individual organisations. There follows detailed, practical discussion of needs assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating training. All these themes are brought together in a book suited to IPM students of Employee Development; it will also play its part in far wider efforts to improve the quality of British training.
Table of Contents:
Part 1 Employee development dimensions: national training interventions - training as an economic instrument, achievements and challenges, national initiatives - 1964 to present day, a note on the Single European Market, which way forward?, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; attitudes toward education and training - education, training and work, changes in attitudes to training and development, philosophies of training, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; learning and training - what do you understand by learning?, reinforcement theories, cybernetic and information theories, cognitive theories and problem solving, experiental learning, learning to learn and self development, mental processes, other horizons, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; the learner and the organization - the learner, the organization as a learning environment, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; approaches to training interventions - organizations' learning systems, generalized approaches, planned training interventions, the costs and benefits of training interventions, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading. Part 2 Managing employee development: the training function in organizations - the training function, management's responsibility for training, creating an appropriate structure, the training of personnel and training staff, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; assessing organizational training needs - the levels of organization needs, types of organizational reviews, before starting the review, reasons for an organizational review, carrying out an organization-wide review, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; training policy, plans and resources - training policy, policy development, annual training plan, training resources, from policy to training plan and budget, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading; training policy, plans and resources - training policy, policy development, annual training plan, training resources, from policy to training plan and budget, for further reflection and discussion, suggested reading. Part contents.
