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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American Society for Training and Development."”.
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A study of the attitudes of adult education practitioners about codes of ethics
… adult educators' attitudes regarding the need for a code of ethics to guide their practice. Through the use of survey methodology, three major groups of adult education practitioners in Indiana responded to various questions about ethical dilemmas they had encountered, their personal …
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Relationships of organizational expectations and trainer orientations on methods used in training
<p>A trainer's managing behaviors in facilitating training programs were assumed to be contingent upon a variety of variables. Studies on the trainer variables suggested that a trainer's educational background, educational orientation about adult teaching, educational philosophy, and organizational …
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Transfer Initiation and Maintenance of Training: Employees’ Perception of the Relative Influences of Transfer Intentions, General Self-efficacy (GSE) and Supervisor Support
Allocating money and resources to improve employees' performance can be costly. The 2008 Industry Report of ASTD (formerly the American Society for Training and Development) showed that U.S. organizations spent $134.39 billion on employee learning and performance. Because learning and development …
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Use of Phillips's Five Level Training Evaluation and ROI Framework in the U.S. Nonprofit Sector
This study examined training evaluation practices in U.S. nonprofit sector organizations. It offered a framework for evaluating employee training in the nonprofit sector and suggested solutions to overcome the barriers to evaluation. A mail survey was sent to 879 individuals who were members of, or …
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Conceptions of instruction in the workplace
… members of the Puget Sound Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development who were trainers in various workplace settings. The respondents' understandings of instruction were sought through semi-structured interviews that focused on one of their instructional experiences. …
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Towards the Development of a Cultural Competence Framework for Human Resource Development Professionals in International Business: A Study of Best Practice Learning and Diversity Companies
… recognized the role diversity plays in business development. However, the human resource development (HRD) profession charged with the responsibility for developing any organization's human resources, has not defined what cultural competence is and its role in improving the performance of HRD …
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Factors associated with training managers' adoption of computers as a teaching tool in their training units
… variables, the personal characteristics of training managers and the characteristics of the organizational training units represented by these individuals, exist in explaining a criterion variable, the adoption of computers as tools for training in business and industry. Another question …
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The mental model comparison of expert and novice performance improvement practitioners
… primary purpose of this study was to reveal performance improvement practitioner expert and novice mental models and identify differences and similarities between these models. The secondary purpose was to analyze the potential relationships of the professional profile characteristics of …
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A Needs Assessment Of The Knowledge, Skills And Use Of Finance Competencies By Human Performance Technology Practitioners
… assessment method was used in this empirical and evidence base research. The design, development and implementation of this study focused on answering two overarching questions: (1) What finance knowledge do HPT practitioners possess? and (2) How do HPT practitioners use their finance …