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Lyons, Rebecca – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the United States today organizational leaders are concerned with skills gaps, or the limited availability of qualified workers to fill open positions. The reason for their concern is the impact of skills gaps on organizational performance in a number of areas including productivity, customer satisfaction, profitability, and the ability to…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Job Performance, Structural Equation Models
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Romaniuk, Mary-Jo; Haycock, Ken – Australian Library Journal, 2011
It has become accepted wisdom that there is a shortage of leaders in the library profession. A number of leader and leadership development programs have emerged in Australia, Canada and the United States that attract interested participants, yet what is the core purpose of these programs? Do they work? Review of leadership programs reveals that…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Program Evaluation, Leadership Training, Program Effectiveness
Wine, Byron; Wilder, David A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
The purpose of the current study was to compare the delivery of varied versus constant high-, medium-, and low-preference stimuli on performance of 2 adults on a computer-based task in an analogue employment setting. For both participants, constant delivery of the high-preference stimulus produced the greatest increases in performance over…
Descriptors: Industrial Psychology, Organizational Development, Reinforcement, Stimuli
Chang, Ya-Hui Elegance – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined Kirkpatrick's training evaluation model (Kirkpatrick & Kirkpatrick, 2006) by assessing a sales training program conducted at an organization in the hospitality industry. The study assessed the employees' training outcomes of knowledge and skills, job performance, and the impact of the training upon the organization. By…
Descriptors: Hospitality Occupations, Industry, Job Performance, On the Job Training
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ElShenawy, Eman – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: This paper's objective is to test the main effect of negotiation training-level on acquiring negotiation skills. Training level refers to the time a trainee spends in a negotiation training course receiving the standard style and methods of training. Negotiation skills are manifested through trainees' performance after receiving training.…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Training Methods, Trainees, Arbitration
Hines, Linda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
"The Impact of Alignment Coaching on Christian Teachers' Worthy Performance" uses Human Performance Technology and "teleonomics" (Gilbert 2007) to document several intersecting vantage points as one performance improvement system of alignment coaching (AC). Coaching relationships and accomplishments of consistently (daily) reading the Bible,…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Faculty Development, Teaching (Occupation), Christianity
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Weldy, Teresa G. – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: This study aims to explore a relationship between the learning organization and transfer of training as strategies for learning and managing knowledge to make performance improvements and gain or maintain a competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach: Various similarities are identified in the literature that are indicative of a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Transfer of Training, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Development
Brown, Mark G. – Performance and Instruction, 1987
Outlines a 10-step process for designing performance improvement systems which is intended to reduce time spent on the project, to assure client approval, and to assure management support. Client participation with the consultant throughout the process is stressed as the key to success. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administration, Guidelines, Improvement Programs, Job Performance
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1986
Data were obtained from Department of Defense (DOD) officials and installations having experience with gainsharing programs. (Gainsharing programs measure gains in employee productivity and share the resulting savings between employees and the organization.) Analysis of private sector studies on gainsharing efforts identified three major trends in…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Education, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency
Fukuda, Ryuji – Performance and Instruction, 1985
This excerpt from "Managerial Engineering: Techniques for Improving Quality and Productivity in the Workplace" describes the development, objectives, and use of On-Error Training (OET), a method which trains workers to learn from their errors. Also described is New Joharry's Window, a performance-error data analysis technique used in…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Improvement Programs, Industrial Training, Job Performance
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Gilley, Jerry W. – Performance Improvement, 2001
Suggests that human resources development professionals need to change their performance improvement focus and philosophy to embrace the importance of building on strengths and managing weaknesses. Identifies five characteristics indicative of employees' strengths. Describes seven strategies to help employees minimize their weaknesses while…
Descriptors: Administration, Employees, Employers, Employment Practices
Brown, Mark G.; Schwarz, Joseph E. – Performance and Instruction, 1988
Description of a process for solving human performance problems focuses on the analysis phase, which examines information to determine causes and develops recommendations for solving the problems. Techniques used for gathering data are described, criteria for evaluating ideas are listed, and weighted scores for performance improvement ideas are…
Descriptors: Employment Problems, Evaluation Criteria, Improvement Programs, Interviews
Thiagarajan, Sivasailam – Performance and Instruction, 1984
Presents eight noninstructional strategies for improving employees' performance in any organization. These alternatives to instruction include job redesign and reassignment, recruitment, organizational development, facilities and tool redesign, incentive and feedback systems, and provision of a strong rationale for the desired performance so…
Descriptors: Consultants, Facility Improvement, Feedback, Improvement Programs
Wikoff, Martin B. – Performance and Instruction, 1984
Describes a longitudinal project in which organizational behavior management (OBM) procedures have been applied to improve performance of plant employees, increase sales of contract furniture, accelerate response time to customer inquiries, increase orders processed, and reduce processing errors at Krueger, a contract and institutional furniture…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Definitions, Feedback, Improvement Programs
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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
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