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This volume shows that interaction within organisations - as well as individual and organisational learning and training - are important for innovation.
This book offers an integrated and contextualised framework for learning and development (L&D) effectiveness that addresses both the nature of L&D and its antecedents and outcomes in organisations. Scholars and practitioners alike have recognised the important role that L&D plays in organisations, where the development of human capital is an essential component of individual employability, career advancement, organisational performance, and competitive advantage. The development of employees’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes constitutes one of the most important HR challenges that organisations face. The evidence indicates that organisations continue to invest in L&D programmes as part of ...
Scientific Study from the year 2010 in the subject Business economics - Personnel and Organisation, grade: 1.0, Bowen University, language: English, abstract: Training is the systematic development of the attitude and skill behaviour pattern required by an individual in order to perform adequately a given task. It is also the systematic modification of behaviour through learning which occurs as a result of education instruction development and planned experiences. Training is designed to change the behaviour of the employee in the work place in order to stimulate efficiency and higher performance standards (Oliseh, 2005:112). The most important resources of an organization are its human reso...
Ruben Martin is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Kent, where he was previously Director of Studies for the BA (Hons) Social Work programme for seven years. Since his retirement from his full-time post, he has continued work as a part-time lecturer, consultant, freelance practice educator and writer. What is your optimal role in a team environment? How do teamworking skills differ between various contexts and groups? Written by a highly-experienced lecturer and practitioner of social work, this book explores the dynamics of teamworking in the context of social work, whether in collaboration with colleagues or professionals from other fields. It provides a practi...
"This book will assist your organisation to ensure that training and other staff development interventions improve the performance of staff in a way that contributes towards the achievement of the organisation's goals and objectives. This will improve the Return on Investment from the money spent on improving staff performance. In addition, the book will guide employers on how to access grants from the SETAs. The book will guide organisations to integrate their skills planning process into other organisational processes aimed at raising the performance levels of staff such as performance appraisals, talent management, succession planning and retention of scarce skills. This integration will improve the relevance of training and other staff development interventions and increase their impact on improved performance."--Back cover.
This joint OECD-ILO report provides a comparative analysis of case studies focusing on improving skills use in the workplace across eight countries.
The Workplace Tutor is designed for anyone who is responsible for the delivery of training in the modern workplace. The workplace could be a commercial business, a government agency or a community organisation. The Tutor could be someone who is employed in the Training Department of the organisation or a skilled employee required to deliver training in his or her skills or an employee of a training company contracted to deliver training within a different workplace. It is a practical book referring to theory only where necessary, but placing the role of training within the historical developments that have taken place over the last 300 years.
This volume shows that interaction within organisations - as well as individual and organisational learning and training - are important for innovation.