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Tucker, Dana – Performance Improvement, 2012
This is a retrospective analysis of the performance of a large training program in a combat environment looked at through the lens of human performance technology. Van Tiem, Moseley, and Dessinger's performance improvement/HPT model and strategic, operational, and tactical levels are used to describe effective and ineffective applications of human…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Police Education, Intervention, Organizational Development
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Griffiths, Amanda – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This paper considers teacher resilience from the viewpoint of a discipline concerned with the interactions between work design, management style and employee health and well-being: occupational health psychology. It will be suggested that there are strong parallels between interventions designed to promote resilience and those designed to reduce…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Occupational Safety and Health, Psychology, Intervention
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Lowe, Kirsty – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2010
This account of practice will explore how action learning has supported local authorities by providing an opportunity to share learning and experiences across organisational boundaries. It will look at the experiences of a new action learning facilitator working with local government scrutiny officers from different organisations.
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Local Government, Educational Practices, Teaching Experience
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Meijer, Albert; Thaens, Marcel – Government Information Quarterly, 2010
This paper challenges the view that strategies for using Web 2.0 should primarily be based upon technological characteristics. The value of the organizational strategic alignment approach for developing specific operational Web 2.0 strategies for government organizations is explored both theoretically and empirically. On the basis of a review of…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Internet, Technology Integration, Information Technology
Lee, Jin Gu; Park, Yongho; Yang, Gi Hun – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2010
This study explores the issues in the development and application of a competency model and provides implications for more precise integration of competencies into human resource (HR) functions driving performance improvement. This research is based on a case study from a Korean consumer corporation. This study employed document reviews,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Competence, Interviews, Observation
Vadivelu, Ramaswamy N.; Klein, James D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2011
This exploratory study examined the influence of national and organizational culture on the use of various performance improvement interventions. Data on intervention use were collected from practitioners in the United States and South Asia. Results revealed that orientation programs, organizational communication, instructor-led training, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personnel Management, Cultural Influences, Organizational Culture