Chapter 1 and 2 Flashcards

(41 cards)

1
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it is planned effort by a company
to facilitate employees’ learning of job-related competencies.

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Training

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What competencies include in training ?

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knowledge, skills or
behavior critical for successful job
performance

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What is the goal of training ?

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It is for the employees to
master the competencies and apply them
to their day-to-day activities.

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It includes basic skills
advanced skills an understanding of the
customer or manufacturing system, and
self-motivated creativity.

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Intellectual Capital

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5
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It Is linked to strategic business goals and
objectives. It also uses an instructional design process to ensure
that training is effective and
creates working conditions that encourage
continuous learning.

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High-leverage Training

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It requires
employees to understand the entire work
system, including the relationships
among their jobs, their work units, and
the company.

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Continuous Learning

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7
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Managers take an active role in:

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Identifying training needs.

Ensuring that employees use training in their
work.

Facilitating the sharing of knowledge, by using
informational maps.

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A systematic approach for developing training
programs.

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Training and Design Process

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Training and Design Process is based on the principles of ?

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Instructional
System Design (ISD).

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Instructional Design is referred to as ?

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ADDIE Model

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ADDIE MODEL stands for ?

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analysis, design,
development, implementation, and
evaluation

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Seven Steps of Training Design Process

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  1. Conducting Needs Assessment
  2. Ensuring Employees Readiness for Training
  3. Creating a Learning Environment
  4. Ensuring Transfer of Training
  5. Developing an Evaluation Plan
  6. Selecting Training Method
  7. Monitoring and Evaluating Program
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What steps share the following assumptions regardless of the specific ISD approach used?

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Training design is effective only if it helps
employees reach their training objectives.

Measurable learning objectives should be
identified before the training program begins.

Evaluation plays an important part in planning
and choosing a training method, monitoring
the training program, and suggesting changes
to the training design process.

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14
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List of Forces Influencing Working and Learning ?

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Economic Cycles
Globalization
Increased value placed on intangible assets and human capital.
Focus on link business strategy
Changing demographics and diversity of the work force.
Talent Management
Customer Service and Quality Emphasis.
New Technology
High Performance Work System

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It provide an opportunity for companies to take
a closer look at training and development to
identify those activities that are critical for
supporting the business strategy as well as
those mandated by law.

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Economic Cycles

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16
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It provides training and development
opportunities for global employees.

It also provide cross-cultural training to prepare
employees and their families to understand
the culture and norms of the country to which
they are being relocated and assists in their
return to their home country after the
assignment.

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Globalization

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17
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It is employees
who contribute to the company not through
manual labor but through what they know,
perhaps about customers or a specialized
body of knowledge.

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Knowledge worker

18
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It is the degree to
which employees are fully involved in their
work and the strength of their commitment to
their job and the company.

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Employee engagement -

19
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It is the adoption of a new idea or
behavior by a company.

20
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Embraces a culture
of lifelong learning, enabling all employees to
continually acquire and share knowledge.

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Learning Organization

21
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It is all about attracting,
retaining, developing, and motivating
highly skilled employees and managers.

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Talent Management

22
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Talent Management is significant because of?

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occupational and job changes.

retirement of baby boomers.

skill requirements.

the need to develop leadership skills.

23
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It is called a
companywide effort to continuously improve
the ways people, machines, and systems
accomplish work.

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Total Quality Management (TQM)

24
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List of few core values of TQM ?

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Methods and processes are designed to meet
the needs of internal and external customers.

Every employee in the company receives
training in quality, which is designed into a
product or service to prevent errors from
occurring rather than being detected and
corrected.

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IT is created by public law, is the highest level of national recognition for quality that a U.S. company can receive.
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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it is a family of standards that include requirements for dealing with how to establish quality standards and how to document work processes to help companies understand quality system requirements.
ISO 9000
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a process of measuring, analyzing, improving, and then controlling processes once they have been brought within the narrow six sigma quality tolerances or standards.
Six Sigma Process
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involves doing more with less effort, equipment, space, and time, but providing customers with what they need and want.
Lean thinking
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a quality management tool designed to ensure that training is linked to company needs and performance.
ISO 10015
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It is changing the delivery of training and makes training more realistic. Allows training to occur at any time and any place. Reduces travel costs. Provides greater accessibility to training and consistent delivery.
New Technology
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It involve employees with various skills who interact to assemble a product or provide a service.
Work teams
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training employees in a wide range of skills so they can fill any of the roles needed to be performed on the team.
Cross training
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teams that are separated by time, geographic distance, culture, and/or organizational boundaries and that rely almost exclusively on technology to interact and complete their projects.
Virtual teams
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Succesful Execution of The 2004 ASTD Competency Model
Learning Strategist Business Partner Professional Specialist Project Manager
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Focus of the 2004 ASTD Competency Model
Designing Learning Improving Human Performance Delivering Training Measuring and Evaluation Facilitating Organization Change Managing the Learning Function Coaching Managing Organizational Knowledge CAreer Planning and Talent MAnagement
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The 2004 ASTD Competency Model : INTERPERSONAL COMPETENCIES : FOUNDATION
Building Trust Communicating Effectively Influencing Stakeholders Leveraging Diversity Networking and Partnering
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The 2004 ASTD Competency Model : MANAGEMENT COMPETENCIES : FOUNDATION
Analyzing Needs and Proposing Solutions Applying Business Acumen Driving Results Planning and Implementing Assignments Thinking Strategically
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The 2004 ASTD Competency Model : PERSONAL COMPETENCIES : FOUNDATION
Demonstrating Adapatability Modeling Personal Development
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What is the frequently used type of technology-based learning?
Self- Spaced Online Learning
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It helped improve learning efficiency, and has resulted in a larger employee–learning staff member ratio.
technology-based learning?
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The use of technology-based learning delivery has increased from what percent in year 2001 to 2007?
11 percent in 2001 to 33 percent in 2007.