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1996

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Optimising Training Effectiveness: From Class Room To Work Place, N M Agrawal Dec 1996

Optimising Training Effectiveness: From Class Room To Work Place, N M Agrawal

IIMB Management Review

Continuous learning is vital to the survival of organisations in this borderless world. For learning to be effective, individuals and organisations must acquire relevant capabilities and successfully apply them to actual work situations. The design of a training system together with the characteristics of the participants and their organisations determine how effectively this transmission of newly acquired capabilities to work settings is achieved.


Employer Motives For Investment In Training, Kevin Hollenbeck Nov 1996

Employer Motives For Investment In Training, Kevin Hollenbeck

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


Return On Investment For Workplace Education, Kevin Hollenbeck Sep 1996

Return On Investment For Workplace Education, Kevin Hollenbeck

Presentations

No abstract provided.


Factors For Effective Facilitator Training Evaluation, Mark I. Wade Sep 1996

Factors For Effective Facilitator Training Evaluation, Mark I. Wade

Theses and Dissertations

This study evaluated the TQM facilitator training course at Wright-Patt Campus, Wright-Patterson AFB. One-hundred sixty-two civilian and military trainees completed a 113 item survey containing 7 outcome scales based on Kraiger's (1993) cognitive, skill based and affective training outcomes. Additional criteria, including experience, training, attitudinal, personality, and organizational support factors, were evaluated for their influence on training outcomes. Results from intercorrelational and hierarchical regression analysis strongly supported the theoretical model of effective facilitator training and suggest that the Wright-Patt Campus does provide effective TQM facilitator training. This study also identified several factors that appear to contribute to improved facilitator effectiveness: …


Case Method: An Effective Training Tool, S Venkatesh, Nina Jacob Jun 1996

Case Method: An Effective Training Tool, S Venkatesh, Nina Jacob

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.


Succeeding In Business: The Abb Experience, Premchander Jun 1996

Succeeding In Business: The Abb Experience, Premchander

IIMB Management Review

Interview with Arun Thiagarajan, managing director Asea Brown Boveri Ltd.


A Benefit-Cost Framework For Assessing The Economic Payoffs To Workplace Literacy Training, Kevin Hollenbeck Apr 1996

A Benefit-Cost Framework For Assessing The Economic Payoffs To Workplace Literacy Training, Kevin Hollenbeck

Conference Papers

No abstract provided.


Worker Training And Retraining Programs In Iowa: Explanation And Alteration, Aaron Gilkes Jan 1996

Worker Training And Retraining Programs In Iowa: Explanation And Alteration, Aaron Gilkes

Presidential Scholars Theses (1990 – 2006)

The existence and structure of state funded worker training and retraining programs are a much debated economic and political topic in Iowa. On one side of the debate there is a group of economic developers and community college personnel trying to operate a system of worker training programs. On the other side of the debate there are certain staff at the University of Iowa Labor Center would like to have these programs revised. The debate covers a wide variety of topics including the treatment of the unemployed, worker and community competitiveness, and the growth of human capital in Iowa.

This …


Characteristics And Criteria Of Effective Training, Michelle D. Yepsen Jan 1996

Characteristics And Criteria Of Effective Training, Michelle D. Yepsen

Theses

This thesis was written to center on the difficulties faced when delivering quality training to today's businesses.

Approaches to training change every year with the additions to technology, but some aspects of the field will remain the same. No matter what type of program is being designed, instructors must assess their students beforehand to ensure that training will provide what is needed.

So often, off-the-shelf training is used without consideration to the audience. The literature reviewed suggested that trainers need to tune into their subjects and work on their communication skills. Also, corporations have objectives that they expect to be …