Training + Development Flashcards
What are the 7 approaches?
- Systematic Training
- Planned Training
- Learning Organisation
- Performance Related Training
- Management Development
- Career Management
- Professional Development
What is Systematic Training?
Bullet-points
- Designed to meet defined needs which are carefully evaluated
- Need to define training needs to determine which type of training intervention
- Experienced trainers plan, implement and then evaluate training
Systematic Training Definition + Method?
DEFINITION - ST is a type of formal training designed to ensure training begins + ends with the company needs. Through a methodical tactic, this approach equips personnel with the knowledge tools to pursue the company’s interest with competent job performance
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What is Planned Training?
- Viewed as a deliberate intervention aimed at achieving learning necessary to improve job performances
- Starts by identifying + defining training needs and then type of intervention
What is Learning Organisation?
- A LO is an organisation which facilitates the learning of all its employees + continually transforms itself
- It encourages people to identify + satisfy their own learning needs + provides feedback on performance + achieved learning
- Provides new experiences from which employees can learn
What is Performance Related Training?
- PRT is focused on performance, thus filling gaps between what staff should know + can do + what they should know + be able to do
- Linked to the business objectives, organisation needs + is competence based
- However, PRT is likely to be promoting the deficient model of training
What is Management Development?
- About development on the job + through work experience, formal training + structured self-development
- Structured performance management systems experimental learning + assessment of own performance
Management Development Definition?
Ensures an organisation has the managers it requires to meet its present and future needs, specifically: improving performance of existing managers, informing managers of their responsibilities, identifying managers with potential, and provide for succession planning
What is Career Management?
- Shapes progression of individuals within an organisation in accordance with assessment or organisational needs + the performance, potential + preference to individuals members of the enterprise
- Thus, organisation has needs for managers + is succession planning to fulfil needs
- It will develop those with the greatest promise to development + provide guidance + encouragement to key individuals with the greatest potential
What is Professional Development?
- Training is not just something which is provided for people at the start of their employment, it should be continuous.
- CPD is broader and reliant on some form of strategic planning.
- Managers must be motivated to meet their needs as they appear, and learning and work must be integrated.
- Impetus for CPD must come from the CEO because investment is continuous.
MUST know in deeper context 2 of the 7 approaches for EXAM
reminder:
- Systematic Training
- Planned Training
- Learning Organisation
- Performance Related Training
- Management Development
- Career Management
- Professional Development
What is the CPD Sanctions and Benefits model care of Madden + Mitchell’s (1993)?
Benefits - An individual’s choice whether to pursue some form of CPD, with emphasis on the benefits of CPD to the individual e.g. advancement, new job, etc. CPD is a voluntary activity and relies on self-motivation
Sanctions - Mandatory requirement in order to demonstrate consistent professional competencies e.g. CIMSPA, REPs, with non-compliance likely to result in sanctions such as removal from a register, in other words, removes an individual’s licence to practice
What are the advantages of CPD?
- Commitment + Motivation
- Focused, planned + designed towards the achievement of clear goals + SMART objectives
What are the disadvantages of CPD?
- Requires resources
- Guskey (2000) suggests CPD is a waste of time + people only partake in due to contractual obligation
- Cororan (1995) questioned the effectiveness of CPD
- Linn et al (2010) feel CPD is ineffective if not
On a timescale how long is Systematic Training?
Short-term
