Evaluating Corporate Training: Models and Issues

Evaluating Corporate Training: Models and Issues
Author: Stephen M. Brown
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9401148503

We are glad to have the opportunity to work together again in the planning and preparation of this edited volume on the evaluation of corporate training. Our respective professional careers have provided us with experience in this area, both as practitioners and as academicians. It is from both of these perspectives that we approached the preparation of this volume. Our purpose is to provide training professionals in business and industry, and students of human resources development with an overview of current models and issues in educational evaluation. The book is organized around three themes: context, models, and issues. The chapters in the context section are intended to provide the reader with an understanding of the social, organizational, and interpersonal factors that provide background and give meaning to evaluation practice. The models section brings together contributions from some of the most influential thinkers and practitioners in the field. The chapters in this section provide perspective on the dominant themes and emergent trends from individuals who have been, and continue to be, the drivers of those trends. Contributions to the issues section highlight some pervasive themes as well as illuminate new areas of concern and interest that will affect how we assess learning interventions in the organizations of today and tomorrow.

Evaluating Training Programs

Evaluating Training Programs
Author: Donald Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 157675796X

An updated edition of the bestselling classic Donald Kirkpatrick is a true legend in the training field: he is a past president of ASTD, a member of Training magazine's "HRD Hall of Fame," and the recipient of the 2003 "Lifetime Achievement Award in Workplace Learning and Performance" from ASTD In 1959 Donald Kirkpatrick developed a four-level model for evaluating training programs. Since then, the "Kirkpatrick Model" has become the most widely used approach to training evaluation in the corporate, government, and academic worlds. Evaluating Training Programs provided the first comprehensive guide to Kirkpatrick's Four Level Model, along with detailed case studies of how the model is being used successfully in a wide range of programs and institutions. This new edition includes revisions and updates of the existing material plus new case studies that show the four-level model in action. Going beyond just using simple reaction questionnaires to rate training programs, Kirkpatrick's model focuses on four areas for a more comprehensive approach to evaluation: Evaluating Reaction, Evaluating Learning, Evaluating Behavior, and Evaluating Results. Evaluating Training Programs is a how-to book, designed for practitiners in the training field who plan, implement, and evaluate training programs. The author supplements principles and guidelines with numerous sample survey forms for each step of the process. For those who have planned and conducted many programs, as well as those who are new to the training and development field, this book is a handy reference guide that provides a practical and proven model for increasing training effectiveness through evaluation. In the third edition of this classic bestseller, Kirkpatrick offers new forms and procedures for evaluating at all levels and several additional chapters about using balanced scorecards and "Managing Change Effectively." He also includes twelve new case studies from organizations that have been evaluated using one or more of the four levels--Caterpillar, Defense Acquisition University, Microsoft, IBM, Toyota, Nextel, The Regence Group, Denison University, and Pollack Learning Alliance.

Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation

Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation
Author: James D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1607281023

A timely update to a timeless model. Don Kirkpatrick's groundbreaking Four Levels of Training Evaluation is the most widely used training evaluation model in the world. Ask any group of trainers whether they rely on the model's four levels Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results in their practice, and you'll get an enthusiastic affirmation. But how many variations of Kirkpatrick are in use today? And what number of misassumptions and faulty practices have crept in over 60 years? The reality is: Quite a few. James and Wendy Kirkpatrick have written Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation to set the record straight. Delve into James and Wendy's new findings that, together with Don Kirkpatrick's work, create the New World Kirkpatrick Model, a powerful training evaluation methodology that melds people with metrics. In Kirkpatrick's Four Levels of Training Evaluation, discover a comprehensive blueprint for implementing the model in a way that truly maximizes your business's results. Using these innovative concepts, principles, techniques, and case studies, you can better train people, improve the way you work, and, ultimately, help your organization meet its most crucial goals.

Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods

Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods
Author: Jack J. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2012-08-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136010424

This new, third edition of Jack Phillips's classic Handbook of Training Evaluation and Measurement Methods shows the reader not only how to design, implement, and assess the effectiveness of HRD programs, but how to ultimately measure their return on investment (ROI). Each chapter has been revised and updated to include additional research, expanded coverage, and new examples of Dr. Phillips's case studies. Seven entirely new chapters have also been added, focusing largely on ROI.

Evaluation Models

Evaluation Models
Author: D.L. Stufflebeam
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2005-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0306475596

This is an up-to-date revision of the classic text first published in 1983. It includes a historical perspective on the growth of evaluation theory and practice and two comparative analyses of the various alternative perspectives on evaluation. It also includes articles representing the major schools of thought about evaluation written by the leaders who have developed these schools and models. The final section describes and discusses the Standards for Program Evaluation and the reformation of program evaluation.

Learning at Work

Learning at Work
Author: Bridget N. O'Connor
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599960567

As a workplace learning professional, what do you need to be able to do to keep up with a fast-changing industry and move ahead? You'll find all the answers in a single source - Learning at Work, the third edition of Training for Organizations, first published in 1996.

Template-based Management

Template-based Management
Author: Uwe G. Seebacher
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2020-10-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030566110

The Template-based management (TBM) approach has been used since 2003 across the world in diverse contexts. It has evolved hand-in-hand with the evolution of business: Agile, Blueprints, Canvas, Design Thinking, or Kanban are only few of the many current concepts based on the approach. This book expands and upgrades the author's 2003 book 'Template-driven Consulting' (Springer) by tracing this evolution and offering the current state-of-the-art to practitioners. TBM combines structure and method: pre-structuring diverse processes, it helps to present complex activities and procedures in a simple, clear, and transparent manner and then implement them. The use of TBM ranges from conception or creative work in agencies to designing organizations and strategies, planning and monitoring initiatives and projects, to innovation management and optimizing cost structures, processes, or entire departments and divisions. The book also demonstrates how successful organizations use TBM to methodically and structurally apply the internal know-how in a cost and time-optimal way for attaining sustainable business success. Readers will learn to apply and use TBM, identify its importance, and benefit from a variety of case studies that illustrate the application and use for the entire business and management practice.

HRD Trends Worldwide

HRD Trends Worldwide
Author: Jack J. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0884153568

Jack Phillips noticed something while consulting for organizations all over the world. He discovered that training and development departments - even though they are in different countries - experience many of the same issues and challenges. He recognized and then researched sixteen critical global HRD trends. As a result of the author's investigation, this book outlines each HRD trend and helps you thoroughly understand them all and, more importantly, put them to good use. The book presents the survey results and explains each trend through examples and evidence. To help you work with the trends, the book provides an examination of each trend's potential impact on your training and performance improvement functions.

Security Operations Management

Security Operations Management
Author: Robert McCrie
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2011-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0080469493

The second edition of Security Operations Management continues as the seminal reference on corporate security management operations. Revised and updated, topics covered in depth include: access control, selling the security budget upgrades to senior management, the evolution of security standards since 9/11, designing buildings to be safer from terrorism, improving relations between the public and private sectors, enhancing security measures during acute emergencies, and, finally, the increased security issues surrounding the threats of terrorism and cybercrime. An ideal reference for the professional, as well as a valuable teaching tool for the security student, the book includes discussion questions and a glossary of common security terms. Additionally, a brand new appendix contains contact information for academic, trade, and professional security organizations. - Fresh coverage of both the business and technical sides of security for the current corporate environment - Strategies for outsourcing security services and systems - Brand new appendix with contact information for trade, professional, and academic security organizations

Borderless Education as a Challenge in the 5.0 Society

Borderless Education as a Challenge in the 5.0 Society
Author: Ade Gafar Abdullah
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2020-10-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000260445

These proceedings contain a selection of papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Educational Sciences, organized on 16 November 2019. It covers themes such as philosophy and policy of teacher education; curriculum, teaching and learning approaches; learner’s characteristics in the digital era; global citizenship education; vocational education; teacher education qualification framework; management, supervision and assessment; lifelong learning for all; diversity in education; equality of educational opportunity; vocational and entrepreneurship education; and education in the industry 4.0 era.