Description
An organisation is a learning environment; training an intervention in an ongoing process. Yet effective employee development, responsive to changing business demands, is critical for organisational success.
When it was first published, Training Interventions was acclaimed as 'the most comprehensive British analysis of training philosophies, approaches, methods and their underlying historical context currently available in print'. Successive editions have served to reinforce its position as the leading text on training in Britain. For this new fourth edition, the authors have thoroughly revised and updated the text to take account of the growing emphasis on learner-centred activity and continuous development and of the recent innovations in technology-based learning. With its combination of exercises, case studies and suggestions for further reflection and discussion, it also offers invaluable material for self-development.
The authors set the scene with a critical review of the national framework and examine changing attitudes to education, the main theories of learning and the organisation as a learning system. Employee development, they argue, is a strategic activity which must be carefully tailored to the needs of individual organisations. There follows detailed, practical discussion of needs assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating training. All these themes are brought together in a book ideally suited to IPD students; it will also play its part in far wider initiatives to improvรฉ the quality of British training.
