Books. Training Interventions - Promoting Learning Opportunities (6th ed.)
Books
Training Interventions - Promoting Learning Opportunities (6th ed.)
Anne Reid and Harry BarringtonIPD Books1999ISBN: 0852928041£19.95
Keywords: Training, Learning, Employee development
The greatest assets in tomorrow's organizations will be those people who continuously update their knowledge, question traditional practices and values and search for new solutions. Competitive advantage will rest with organizations that employ or create and retain such people and develop new-style learning cultures in which employees are helped to learn on a continuing basis.
But cultures where people take responsibility for their own learning and where the workplace itself becomes a vehicle for personal growth require a supportive management. The removal of organizational barriers to learning has a key role to play.
The authors of Training Interventions - Promoting Learning Opportunitiesprovide a historical, organizational and philosophical perspective, presenting a picture of the changes in the workplace over the past century and demonstrating that current strategies and practice are a blend of old and new.
The book then goes on to examine the practicalities of managing employee development, focusing on areas such as assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
Reflecting the shift in emphasis from training to learning and the increased need for continuous self-development, the sixth edition of Training Interventions - Promoting Learning Opportunities includes new material on learning from experience. "The ideal solution is where people can recognize their own needs, promote their own learning opportunities and take advantage of those that occur naturally during the day's work", say the authors. But they stress that all managers should be personally responsible for the development of their own staff and offer guidance for managers on encouraging their subordinates to learn.
The book includes an analysis of future trends, including a discussion of knowledge management and learning organizations and the impact of new technology on the learning process. As the authors make clear:Education and training are no longer in watertight compartments ... The rate and pace of change have made learning a fundamental part of work, not just an adjunct to it.
The book has proved its worth to thousands of students and practitioners in its various editions and the authors equally have long been respected for their expertise and assiduous observation of the subject. Policy makers in the public and private sectors, trainers and students are likely to find this revised and updated edition a useful source of information on the latest practice and thinking.
