Learning and Performance

A Systemic Model for Analysing Needs and Evaluating Training

Bryan Hopkins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781315412238
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Changing work roles, greater emphasis on individual autonomy, the growing importance of relationships, the complexity of many businesses; all these things call into question the prevailing approach to training needs analysis and evaluation, which still tends to be based on a simple gap analysis between job requirements and an employee's knowledge and skills.

Bryan Hopkins's Learning and Performance takes a systemic approach to workplace performance, training needs and the basis on which we can analyse them and evaluate the subsequent training.

The author's approach offers a model for HR and training departments that is relevant and sufficiently sophisticated for today's workplaces. As with all his books, Bryan Hopkins combines a complete understanding of learning and organisational theory with pragmatic examples, ensuring a book that will be read and applied in equal measure.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Cover illustration
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 What is this book about?
• 2 What is systems thinking?
• 3 Analysing training needs
• 4 Evaluating training
• 5 Key concepts in systems thinking
• 6 Tools to help systems thinking
• 7 How do people learn?
• 8 Systemic approaches to analysing training needs
• 9 Specifying learning activities
• 10 Systemic approaches for evaluating training
• 11 Bringing it all together
• Index