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Yaney, Joseph P. – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Explains the changes in graduate business education as they relate to human resource development (HRD) and suggests that the HRD specialist can achieve professional growth through accounting, finance, economics, marketing, statistics, management theory training, and practical internships. (MER)
Descriptors: Business Education, Graduate Study, Human Resources, On the Job Training
Markowitz, Jerrold – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Suggests that academic programs need to further demonstrate that graduate courses and job experience can supplement each other in career development by specifying the applicable cognitive and psychomotor skills that can be developed and developing a closer relationship with the employment community. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Development, Graduate Study, On the Job Training, Professional Training
Beaudin, Bart P.; Dowling, William D. – Performance and Instruction, 1985
Discusses results of a survey of trainers in midwest business and industry to identify the different data collection methods they used to determine job and task training needs as well as organizational and individual training needs within their organizations. (MBR)
Descriptors: Business, Data Collection, Individual Needs, Methods
Scanland, Dorothy vonK.; Scanland, Worth – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Addresses the concept underlying Job Performance Aids, (JPAs), reviews research which has been done on JPAs, and describes how they are currently being used. An innovative approach for using computers to assist in improving job performance in the Navy is described, and 11 references are listed. (MER)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Instructional Improvement, Job Performance, Microcomputers
Christofferson, Judith – Performance and Instruction, 1994
Describes a program through which employees were assigned to positions other than their own for job training purposes. The benefits of such a cross-training program, factors that should be considered prior to program planning, a model for effective implementation, and follow-up to promote retention of new job skills are covered. (KRN)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Strategies, Industrial Training, Labor Force Development
Modesitt, Kenneth L. – Performance and Instruction, 1981
Suggests four strategies involving training and education to keep abreast of changing job needs in high technology corporations: (1) the use of instructional design and computer based learning, (2) increases in the volume of technical staff, (3) enhancement of existing technical staff, and (4) improved on-the-job performance. Seventeen references…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Futures (of Society), Instructional Design
Cantor, Jeffrey A. – Performance and Instruction, 1990
Describes a process for evaluating the effectiveness of formal courses or segments of training instruction, including lessons or modules. Topics discussed include focusing on objectives; objective and test item evaluation; on-the-job training; task levels; transfer of training; presentation evaluation; and evaluation of instructional…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
