Employee Development (Management Studies)

by RosemaryHarrison (Author)

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  1992

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  The IPD examination system provides a unique route into professional personnel practice. The Management Studies series has been designed for IPD students. Management Studies I provides practical introductory texts ideally suited to students on the Professional Management Foundation Programme while Management Studies 2 covers the core subject areas of the IPD Stage 2 syllabus. All these texts will prove equally useful for practising managers who wish to enhance their understanding of contemporary management techniques and methods. This text examines the British vocational education and training system in its international context, and goes on to consider training and development as a powerful strategic function, capable of making a major contribution to the bottom line . Topics include: the creation of a learning organisation ; design, delivery and evaluation of learning events; management development; career planning; the induction, basic training and continuous development of different occupational groups. The book includes a wide range of activities and real-life case studies.

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  Paperback
  2000

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  This text provides students with a clear framework for understanding how HRD professionals can formulate and implement an ED strategy, identify learning needs, gain top management commitment to an organisational programme of training and development, manage and develop a training function and design, and deliver and evaluate learning events. This second edition has been extended to incorporate more self-checks. Each chapter now concludes with a review of learning objectives through questions from past exam papers. New sections of the book cover: updates in the national and global environment of ED; changes in organisations' HR and ED practice; new material to aid understanding of the business partner role; how ED adds value ; implications of knowledge management for the ED process; and the importance of technology-based learning when applied to ED adminstration.