HRM 2203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Conference Board, Questionnaire Construction

• School: Durham College
• Department: HRM
• Course: HRM 2203
• Professor: Bhola Saha

Document Summary

A process to assess the value or worthiness of training programs to employees and to organizations. A continuum of techniques, methods, and measures. It is of value to organizations in order to: Do organizations conduct training evaluation: the conference board of canada indicates that 56 percent of organizations now report evaluating their training programs (2012-2013) Research suggests that canadian organizations are increasingly aware of the importance of training evaluation. Organizations with strong learning cultures do better on the evaluation dimensions discussed by the conference board of canada than do those whose learning cultures are weaker. Pragmatic barriers: time and effort, financial costs, evaluation research design, measurement, questionnaire construction, and data analysis (may be intimidating) requires knowledge of evaluation models, Political barriers: absence of accountability, evaluation can be threatening, ethical concerns; a belief that evaluation should be externally conducted. Descriptive evaluations: descriptive evaluations provide information describing trainees once they have completed a training program.