Training Interventions: Managing Employee Development

This revised and updated edition takes account of the growing emphasis on learner-centred activity and continuous development and of the recent innovations in technology-based learning. With its combination of exercises, case studies and suggestions for further reflection and discussion, it also offers useful material for self-development. The authors set the scene with a critical review of the national framework, and examine the changing attitudes to education, the main theories of learning and the organization as a learning system. There follows detailed, practical discussion of needs assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating training. All these themes are brought together suited to Institute of Personnel and Development studies, and should also play its part in far wider initiatives 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 organizational 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.