ADMS 3410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11,12 and 14: Management Development, Job Performance, Experiential Learning

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 3410
• Professor: Ken Mc Bey

Document Summary

Training evaluation a continuum of techniques used to measure successfulness of training, the more elaborate the more complete the results and usually more costly. Data collection can be costly and time consuming. I am trying to learn as much as i can from this course: motivation to transfer knowledge (ex. Number of items sold: soft data: results assessed through judgements (ex. Attitudes: return on expectations: measure of a training program"s ability to meet managerial expectations. Models of evaluation: kirkpatrick"s hierarchical model oldest best known and most frequently used model. Coma improves on kirkpatrick"s model in 4 ways. Incorporates greater number of measures: useful for formative evaluations, measures are known to be the cause of training success, defines new variables with greater precision, decision-based evaluation model specifies the target, focus, and methods of evaluation. Identifies focus (variables measured: suggests methods, general to evaluation goals, flexibility: guided by target of evaluation. Chapter 12: the costs and benefits of training.