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Welcome to the Virtual tour for
Effective Training, First Canadian Edition
By James W. Thacker University of Windsor
P. Nick Blanchard Eastern Michigan University
ISBN 0-13-127175-X
Due May 2005
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Effective Training, First Canadian Edition will be a perfect textbook choice for your course, since it provides not only the theory and scholarship surrounding the learning-teaching experience but it also provides you with many very practical applications – the “how to” part of the experience.
The running case, Fabrics Inc. takes students through what actually occurs in the development of a training program. The case is developed step-by-step from needs analysis through design and evaluation. As students work through the case they will gain a real understanding of the things that need to be done and how they are actually done.
Increasingly it is becoming clear that human resource development needs to be an integral part of any company’s strategic plan. Effective Training recognizes this and discusses training in terms of strategic issues. The book shows where training fits in the strategic framework of an organization and how training can support the company strategy.
Some of the unique characteristics of this book include the way in which the authors:
- Integrate training into the strategic planning process
- Show the important relationship between organizational development practitioners and trainers
- Provide an overarching model of the training process, with a more detailed model of each phase of the process, making it easy to see how each phase connects in the reaching of training objectives
- Provide an understanding of training and its implementation as it relates to the small business.
- Integrate learning and design theory into the development of training so the reader understands how theory helps design effective training.
- Describe the step-by-step process of developing an actual training package as we move through each of the training process stages from needs analysis through the evaluation.
- Provide numerous examples of actual training situations in Canadian companies to highlight aspects of the training process.
- Provide a step-by-step process for developing learning objectives with many examples of good and bad objectives.
- Use a contingency approach, identifying alternative approaches to the training process and the associated strengths and limitations, rather than a “one best way.”
- Incorporate a micro theory of design into the design of training.
- Provide a comprehensive case in Chapter 1 that is applicable throughout the text and is often referred to in the remaining chapters.
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