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Seals, Brenda – School Business Affairs, 2011
During her 13 years leading a school district human resources office, the author came to recognize that managing human capital is much more than recruiting, hiring, managing personnel records, and handling performance issues. In addition to implementing initiatives to increase the efficiency with which HR officers and staff perform those tasks,…
Descriptors: Human Capital, School Districts, Human Resources, Audits (Verification)
Armbruster, Stephanie; Strasburger, Tom – School Business Affairs, 2011
The economic crisis has caused districts throughout the United States to cut resources and limit spending, particularly with regard to staff. However, the requirements for maintaining safe, efficiently functioning schools and for remaining in compliance with state and federal regulations have not decreased; in many cases, those responsibilities…
Descriptors: Human Resources, School Administration, Automation, Job Simplification
Ehrsam, Hank – School Business Affairs, 2012
Paying for employee turnover costs, data storage, and multiple layers of benefits can be difficult for fiscally constrained institutions, especially as budget cuts and finance-limiting legislation abound in school districts across the country. Many traditional paper-based systems have been replaced with automated, software-based services, helping…
Descriptors: Personnel Management, Human Resources, Redundancy, Program Improvement
Collins, Joshua C. – Human Resource Development Review, 2011
Female victims of domestic violence--also referred to as "battered women"--face serious career development challenges that necessitate the intervention and aid of human resource development (HRD) practice.The purpose of this article is to identify critical factors having an impact on the career development (CD) of battered women and to offer…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Human Resources, Career Development
Kaufman, Roger; Bernardez, Mariano L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Conventional human performance technology has had a good run. It allowed scientific and data-based research to be applied to improve performance, usually just individual performance. The field must be expanded without losing this individual performance focus to include a scope that measurably improves performance for individuals and organizations…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Organizational Change, Organizational Development, Models
Pearlstein, Richard B. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Most executives have not heard of human performance technology (HPT), but a recent Google search showed 25 times more Google hits for "lean six sigma" than for "human performance technology." This article describes five factors that make HPT a hard sell: (1) HPT is not part of standard business jargon, (2) organizational executives associate…
Descriptors: Expertise, Problem Solving, Performance Technology, Performance Factors
Villachica, Steven W.; Stepich, Donald A.; Rist, Shannon – Performance Improvement, 2011
The business of training and performance improvement has always been cyclical, with the fortunes of human resource development (HRD) and performance improvement professionals rising and falling with the economic fortunes of the workplace. The current economic downturn and nascent recovery represent an opportunity for HRD and performance…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Human Resources, Economic Climate, Opportunities
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2012
For flooring manufacturer Mohawk Industries, it is not enough to teach employees how to be great. The long-time Training Top 125 contender focused last year on helping employees to blaze their own learning paths while meeting organization imperatives. That meant improving the technology that supports employee performance, as well as creating new…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Organizational Development, Performance Technology, Social Networks
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2008
Human Resources (HR) administrators are finding that as software modules are installed to automate various processes, they have more time to focus on strategic objectives. And as compliance with affirmative action and other employment regulations comes under increasing scrutiny, HR staffers are finding that software can deliver and track data with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Resources, Management Information Systems, Automation
Kearney-Gissendaner, Janet E. – Eye on Education, 2010
The tools and resources in this book help school leaders seamlessly incorporate minority teacher recruitment and retention programs into current human-resources activities. With details about exemplary minority teacher recruitment and retention programs, this book also showcases strategies for how to replicate such programs in your own school or…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Minority Group Teachers, School Holding Power, Teacher Recruitment

O'Driscoll, Tony – Performance Improvement, 2003
Defines human performance technology (HPT) as systems thinking applied to human resource activities, chronicles the emergence of HPT and the development of the HPT process model, and considers its use to define and implement high-performance work systems in information age organizations. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Human Resources, Models, Performance Technology, Systems Approach
Wademan, Mark R.; Spuches, Charles M.; Doughty, Philip L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2007
The People Capability Maturity Model[R] (People CMM[R]) advocates a staged approach to organizational change. Developed by the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, this model seeks to bring discipline to the people side of management by promoting a structured, repeatable, and predictable approach for improving an…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Organizational Change, Performance Technology, Best Practices
Finley, Ken – Performance and Instruction, 1994
Discusses the concept of differentiating between legitimate needs (gaps between current and desired results) and wants (the customer's preferred solution for meeting needs). A case study from a human resources development group is presented, including a proposed solution, the performance technology compromise, and impacts on design and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Human Resources, Performance Technology, Problem Solving

Rossett, Allison; Keenan, Cathy; Adgate, Gene – Performance Improvement, 1997
Discussion of the changes that human resource and training departments are undergoing. Focuses on the development of a soap opera format on the World Wide Web that reflects on performance technology, distributed technology, and shifting professional roles. Examples of episodes and suggestions for improving it as an educational tool are provided.…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Instructional Effectiveness, Internet, Performance Technology
Burns, Janet Z.; Dean, Peter J.; Hatcher, Tim; Otte, Fred L.; Preskill, Hallie; Russ-Eft, Darlene – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1999
The purpose of the standards described in this article are to provide guidance and a common set of values for human resource development/human performance training (HRD/HPT) professionals. General Standards; Research and Evaluation; Advertising and Other Public Statements; Publication of Work; Privacy and Confidentiality; Teaching and…
Descriptors: Ethics, Guidelines, Human Resources, Performance Factors
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