TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS EVAL - Softcover

Bee, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852925476 ISBN 13: 9780852925478

Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 1994

Synopsis

Companies of every size devote much time and effort - and sometimes huge budgets - to training. Yet since it remains rare for needs, methods and results to be assessed systematically, it is often impossible to determine the return on this investment. The answer, argue Roland and Francis Bee, is to go back to first principles.

Training needs must be driven from business needs and a corporate strategy developed in response to internal and external stimuli. Data generated by appraisal systems, manpower and succession plans help define the performance gap. Once the need has been clearly specified, all the more technical issues - should the training be formal or informal, designed specifically or brought off the shelf? Who is the best supplier? - fall easily into place.

A systematic four-stage evaluation process then allows managers to assess whether training has been successfully transfered to the workplace, whether it serves organisational objectives and provides value for money. All this is set out in a clear practical guide drawing on many examples from the authors' own in-house and consultancy experience. For anyone who hopes to harness training initiatives to organisational goals, there could be no better place to start.

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Synopsis

Personnel professionals need to acquire and constantly update a full portfolio of core skills; this series aims to equip managers with all the essential elements. Roland and Frances Bee argue that training needs must be driven from business needs and a corporate strategy developed in response to external and internal stimuli. Once the need has been clearly specified, all the more technical issues fall easily into place. Using many examples, this clear, practical guide describes a systematic four-stage evaluation process which allows managers to assess whether training has been successfully transferred to the workplace, whether it serves organizational objectives and provides value for money.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0852925476
• ISBN 13: 9780852925478
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320