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This text is a workable solution that allows trainers and staff developers to integrate online learning within a broader range of more traditional learning techniques. It aims to provide an ideal guidebook to creating a new style of training.
This volume is a jargon-free, hand-holding guide for those new to training or those wanting to develop their training skills. It covers everything from designing, delivering and evaluating training to advice on training as a career. Also included is an appendix of useful contacts and websites.
Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer-responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they need to develop innovative products and services quickly and cost-effectively. The High Performance Organization provides invaluable information and practical tools for people engaged in leading organizational change efforts as an executive, line manager, HR practitioner or change agent. This practical text is grounded in organizational reality as well as having a sound theoretical setting. Illustrative case studies have been drawn from consultancy practice and a wide range of current research.
A welcome and comprehensive analysis of the MCI within the context of modern management development. The book emphasizes the benefits of linking management development with organisational strategy.
Learning and development is essential to organizational success. Training courses were traditionally used as the key method of teaching, but increasingly the focus is shifting to individuals and managers adopting a more flexible approach to learning. Organizations are being held responsible for maximizing the skills, knowledge and behaviours available to them, ensuring that employees are not solely learning new skills, but are using their existing skills to maximum effect. Workplace Learning and Development guides managers and employees through the concept of workplace learning. It identifies the variety of flexible learning strategies and methods, explains how to select the right method for a specific situation, and illustrates how these methods can add value to overall performance. Real-life examples of workplace learning are included to allow readers to gain insight into how it works and more importantly, how they could use it to address their specific needs.
Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overviewof population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typicalfield biologist and land managers with a modest statisticalbackground. The text includes concrete guidelines for ecologists tofollow to design a statistically defensible monitoringprogram. User-friendly, practical guide, written in a highly readableformat. The authors provide an interdisciplinary scope to address thecurrent, widespread interest in monitoring in many environmentalfields, including pure and applied ecology, conservation biology,and wildlife management. Emphasizes the role of monitoring in adaptive management. Defines important terminology and contrasts mon...
We are now going through a sustainability revolution that will rival the agricultural and industrial revolutions in the way it will transform society. Innovation and creativity will be needed to develop radical, new products that are less damaging to the environment and generate new business and job. The book is of interest to all business and management students, academicians, researchers, practitioners, consultants, corporate managers, governments, non-governmental organizations and international organizations with special interest in issues relating to HRM for sustainability. The book is centered on the theme of HRM and sustainability. The authors have pulled different strings of HRM enabling sustainability from the designing and assembling the HR functions for sustainability to creating sustainable culture to best practices in HRM for sustainability. The authors have shared various perspectives in terms of the role of HRM for sustainability from culture building to employer branding to employee engagement. The authors have also reflected upon the role of HRM in managing future workforce and creating conducive and sustainable employee relations.
A guide to current best practice and new thinking at all levels, and a directory of the wide-ranging sources of information and support available to anyone involved in human resource development. This revised edition covers new trends, preparing for future skills requirements and applications.