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For undergraduate and graduate courses in Human Resources Development, Human Resources Management, and Organizational Training.
This text, both academic and practical, discusses theory and principles of training as they relate to organizational objectives and strategies. This new edition emphasizes the value of developing training programs, with examples provided for both large and small organizations, relating training to the overall strategy of a firm.
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Effective Training, Second Edition, discusses theory and principles of training as they relate to organizational objectives and strategies. This new edition emphasizes the value of developing training programs that relate training to the overall strategy of a firm.
- NEW—New chapter on important types of training programs—This chapter addresses orientation, diversity, sexual harassment, and team-training.
- NEW—Expanded examples of training objectives— Comprehensive comparative tables of poor training objectives examples, show how to take poor training objectives and develop better ones.
- NEW—"How to actually do it" sections—These sections use real training situations, with step-by-step instructions from inception to evaluation.
- Design theory—Effective Training is the only text on the market that provides guidance in training design using this theory.
- A comprehensive model of the training process—By using this model of the training process, students are able to apply what they learned to study the various programs presented.
- Strategic approach—The strategic approach puts training into the larger context of an organization's overall objectives and strategy.
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