Chapter 7 Flashcards
Lifelong Learning
A formal commitment to ensuring that employees have and develop the skill they need to be effective in their jobs today and in the future
Training evaluation
Systematically collecting the information necessary to make effective decisions about adopting, improving, valuing, and continuing an instructional activity or set of activities
Training Transfer
Effectively using what is learned in training back on the job
Self-Management Strategies
Efforts to control one’s motivation, emotions, and decision-making to enhance the application of learned capabilities to the job
Training Gamification
Applying gaming designs and concepts to training to make it more engaging for the learner and increase learning and performance outcomes
Training
Formal and informal activities to improve competencies relevant to an employee’s or a work-group’s current job
Learning Objective
Identifies desired learning outcomes
Variable Socialization
Employees do not know when to expect to pass a different status level, and the timeline may be different across employees
Individual Socialization
Newcomers are socialized individually as an apprenticeship
Orientation
Training activities to help new hires fit in as organizational members
Disjunctive Socialization
Newcomers are left alone to develop their own interpretations of the organization and situations they observe
Development
Focuses on developing competencies that an employee or workgroup is expected to need in the future
Divestiture Socialization
Tries to deny and strip away certain personal characteristics
Informal Socialization
Unstructured, on-the-job socialization done by coworkers
Sensory Modality
A system that interacts with the environment through one of the basic senses