Archive for November, 2006

Observational Learning: A Key Component of Employee Training

Observational learning occurs when someone acquires new knowledge vicariously by observing what happens to others. This is the most common, and the most effective form of learning on the job.
Four processes must occur for observational learning to be most effective.

Attention: the learner must pay close attention to the model
Retention: the learner must be able to [...]

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Interviewing Overqualified Applicants

A manager of a small business recently posted a job opening for a mostly clerical type job. She has received many applications from people with a degree and extensive work experience. She is worried that they will be unhappy and leave.
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The Problem With Grocery Store Recruiting

A recruiter for a unionized grocery chain in California is having a hard time recruiting individuals for store-level positions (i.e. service deli, meat clerks, grocery clerks.). This person has pretty much tried everything, such as schools, churches, unemployment agencies, referral programs, and many more, and is still having a hard time finding employees. The most [...]

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Improved Productivity by Telecommuting

Working away from company premises via computer and phone links is a rapidly developing trend. Business Week reports 200 U.S. firms experimenting with the process, and more than thirty already operating formal programs. The University of Southern California’s Center for Future Research predicts that five million people will work this way within ten years. An [...]

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A Person’s Ability To Learn

A person’s ability to learn is hampered when suffering from either the cold, flu, or other ailment. A person’s attention is diverted to alleviating those symptoms. If you have ever suffered from the cold or flu, you would have suffered from a runny nose, stuffy head, and body aches. If you have tried to read [...]

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MBA Field Studies: A Guide For Any Graduate Student

Field studies are conducted widely in business schools in the United States for the sole pupose to provide the maximum opportunity to learn. As many employers can relate, what you learn in a training program, you must be able to transfer to the job. It provides a unique educational opportunity that allows you to apply [...]

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Web Based Training

Background
In the past, training has been a place where you send your troubled employees to be fixed. Once their problems have been corrected they would then return to work. The problem with this form of training was that it was dehumanizing, had little care for the concerns for the employee.
In the last five years, we [...]

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Principles of Adult Learning

The outcome of Human Resource Development is performance improvement. A key component is learning, which is knowledge and expertise. Swanson (1996) defines HRD as that process of developing and/or unleashing human expertise through organizational development and personnel training and development for the purpose of improving performance at the organizational, work process, and individual levels. There [...]

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Cognitive Development

Employees have been said that they are the key people to making an organization run and achieve its goals. The employees are the organization’s most valuable asset. It seems only logical to allow employees to participate in programs that allow them to use their skills to the fullest. There have been many studies showing that [...]

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Bloom’s Taxonomy as an outline for a learning experience

How can Bloom’s Taxonomy be an outline for a learning experience?
As an assistant grocery manager at a supermarket, my first task would be to train my associates on planning and building displays. The grocery is the largest department in the supermarket and presentation is key to success. All associates need to have the skills to [...]

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