Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Observational Learning, Virtual Reality, Job Rotation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: John Meyer

Document Summary

Contributions of i/o psychology: systematic approach to the assessment of training needs, principles of learning to guide design and implementation of training, scientific approach to the evaluation training to determine its effectiveness. Training vs. development: training, objective is to provide the knowledge and skills to perform effectively on the job, development, objective is to help employees fit in, develop general competencies, and/or prepare for future jobs in the organization, examples include: Levels of analysis: organizational analysis, identification of short and long term goals, identification of human resource needs, evaluation of methods of meeting hr needs (e. g. , selection, training, assessment of resource availability, evaluation of support for transfer of training (transfer climate, task (work) analysis, identification of: Optimal procedures: person analysis, evaluation of individual against standards, identification of deficiencies, identification of causes (e. g. , motivation vs. ability, assessment of trainability, demographic analysis, assess the specific training needs of various demographic groups (e. g. , the disabled, or those protected by civil rights legislation).