Learning and performance : a systemic model for analysing needs and evaluating training / / Bryan Hopkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910153204503321
• Autore: Hopkins Bryan <1954->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-315-41225-X; 1-315-41223-3; 1-315-41224-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.3/124
• Soggetti: Employees - Training of; Performance; Needs assessment; Organizational learning; Personnel management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. What is this book about? -- 2. What is systems thinking? -- 3. Analysising training needs -- 4. Evaluating training -- 5. Key concepts in systems thinking -- 6. Tools to help systmes thinking -- 7. How do people learn? -- 8. Systemic approaches to analysing training needs -- 9. Specifying learning activities -- 10. Systemic approaches for evaluating training -- 11. Bringing it all together.
• Sommario/riassunto: Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and an employee's knowledge and skills. Bryan Hopkins's Learning and Performance takes a systemic approach to workplace performance, training needs and the basis on which we can analyse them and evaluate the subsequent training. The author's approach offers a model for HR and training departments that is relevant and sufficiently sophisticated for today's workplaces. As with all his books, Bryan Hopkins combines a complete ; understanding of learning and organisational theory with pragmatic examples, ensuring a book that will be read and applied in equal measure.