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The Cambridge handbook of workplace training and employee development

Title By: Brown, Kenneth G, 1969- [Edited by]
Material type: BookPublisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.Description: xx, 650 pages : ill. ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9781107085985Subject(s): Employees | Personnel management | Career developmentDDC classification: 658.3124 CA MB
Summary:
With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and development, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists. Brown provides a forward-looking exploration of the current research on workplace training, employee development, and organizational learning from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology. Each chapter discusses current practices, recent research, and, importantly, the gaps between the two. In analyzing these aspects of the topic, the chapter authors both present the valuable knowledge available and show the opportunities for further study and practice.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and overview: now more than ever --
Cognitive and neural foundations of learning --
Facilitating the development of expertise: an individual with organizational perspective --
Understanding training transfer from the adaptive performance perspective --
The psychology of learner control in training : a multilevel, interactionist framework --
The role of abilities in learning and training performance --
Taking charge of your own learning: self-regulation in training --
Genuine and perceived demographic differences in training and development --
Enhancing training transfer by promoting accountability in different work contexts: an integrative framework --
Building deep specialization through intentional learning activities --
The science and practice of simulation-based training in organizations --
Augmented reality systems in training --
One (lesson) for the road? What we know (and don't know ) about mobile learning --
Time and thinking : an alternative to traditional learning and development activities --
Developing Latino talent --
Training and development in small and medium enterprises --
Team training : knowing much, but needing to know much more --
Developing cultural intelligence --
Implications of positive organizational behavior and psychological capital for learning and training effectiveness --
Rings of fire : training for systems thinking and broadened impact --
Rockstar vs. ringmaster : balancing complementary teaching roles to develop management skills --
Training from the perspective of human resource development and industrial-organizational psychology : common pasts, parallel paths --
going where? --
Strategic training and development and their role in shaping competitive advantage --
Hospitality training and research : a review and implications for future research --
Informal learning --
An operations management perspective on employee training and workforce planning --
Workplace training from a sociological perspective.

With comprehensive coverage of topics related to learning, training, and development, this volume is a must-have resource for industrial and organizational (I/O) psychologists, human resource (HR) scholars, and adult education specialists. Brown provides a forward-looking exploration of the current research on workplace training, employee development, and organizational learning from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology. Each chapter discusses current practices, recent research, and, importantly, the gaps between the two. In analyzing these aspects of the topic, the chapter authors both present the valuable knowledge available and show the opportunities for further study and practice.

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