Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: High Fidelity, Learning Management System, Job Performance

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 1021A/B
• Professor: Sarah Ross

Document Summary

Training: an organization"s planned efforts to help employees acquire job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviours, with the goal of applying these on the job. Employee development: the combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers. Specific training: training on specific things that are unique to the organization. Difficulty in selection: might have to choose someone mediocre because the best aren"t willing to do certain parts of the job, or move somewhere. Instructional design: a process of systematically developing training to meet specified needs. Learning management system: a computer application that automates the administration, development, and delivery of training and development programs. Needs assessment: process of determining the training needs for the organization (o we have enough resources?, do people support is? (time, money, space, support, etc. ) We may realize we don"t need to train) Person analysis who needs training? (which employees need the training, why?)