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Hannum, Wallace – Performance Improvement, 2009
This article questions commonly held beliefs about training as a component of performance improvement solutions. Rather than being based on theoretical and empirical support, many beliefs about training are based on little more than myth. Part 1 of this article presents myths about the relationship of training and performance and myths about…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Misconceptions, Beliefs, Training
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Jorgensen, Marcus E. – Performance Improvement, 1999
Provides eight reasons why a trainer with an instructional technology background and an employee-centered focus on performance improvement should be involved in solving human performance problems. Abilities highlighted include: systematic thinker; systemic thinker; analytical; team player; excellent interpersonal and communication skills; knowing…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Educational Technology, Improvement Programs, Instructional Systems
Jacobs, Ronald L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1988
The author proposes a domain and definition for the human performance technology field. The proposed domain consists of three components: management functions, performance systems development functions, and components of human performance systems. He also discusses systems theory and professional practice and outlines implications for research,…
Descriptors: Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Labor Force Development, Management Systems
Jacobs, Ronald L. – 1987
This monograph proposes and describes a systems-based field of study for the training and development (T&D) profession: human performance technology. The first section describes what is meant by a field of study and professional practice and then provides a rationale for the proposal. Section 2 explores training and development in the context…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Human Factors Engineering, Job Performance, Labor Force Development
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2003
The General Accounting Office (GAO) examined publicly supported training programs for employed workers, including low-wage workers. The GAO surveyed local workforce boards nationwide and received responses from 470 boards. Two-thirds of the responding boards provided assistance to train employed workers, including partnering with employers to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship
Rothwell, William J. – 2002
This book explains how work organizations can create a workplace climate that encourages real-time, on-the-job learning and development of competent workplace learners, who are wiling and able to seize the initiative for identifying their own learning experiences and evaluating the results. The following are among the topics discussed: (1) the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Learning, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style