Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Informal Learning, Job Performance, Performance Management

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Michael Aloisio

Document Summary

Training: training describes those planned organizational activities designed to help employees acquire the job relevant knowledge & skills necessary for their current jobs, present focused, on current job. Instructor led, online, blended are the most common training methods: training methods will generally fall into 3 categories, presentation methods, information presented to the learner, hands-on methods, experience, on the job learning, group-building methods, teamwork training. "do we train in-house or will we contract out?" Similarity of training situation to job situation (fidelity) When we learn stuff to the point where it"s muscle memory. Training is matched with changes to apply what is learned. The employees and the organization has to change: evaluation, the 5 ways organizations evaluate training are: Useful but least commonly used: according to a conference board of canada study conducted in 2012-2013. Know the order but not the numbers: reactions. Assesses the reactions or the way individuals feel about the training they received.