Effective Workforce Development

A Concise Guide for HR and Line Managers

Antonios Panagiotakopoulos

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9781000711578
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Developed for busy HR practitioners and trainers, this book provides a concise guide to the theory and practice of employee training in contemporary organizations. Reflecting the importance of employee development to learning-based organisations in the knowledge economy, it clearly links employee training needs to business development and offers an accessible guide to current theories combined with research-based practical guidance in how to design effective training programs.

Covering all the current theories about training and development and the latest thinking about workplace learning interventions, this concise, practical guide will be an essential source for HR practitioners and line managers seeking improve organizational learning and performance.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Aims of the book
• About the author
• Introduction
• 1 The learning process
• 2 Training and organisational performance
• 3 The systematic approach to employee training
• 4 Informal learning at work
• 5 Creating the learning organisation
• 6 Development of ‘soft’ skills
• 7 Giving effective presentations
• 8 Practical exercises for employee training interventions
• Concluding remarks
• Further reading
• Index