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Direct linkKelly, Steven J.; Coughlin, Patrick C.; Novak, M. Mari – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2012
Over the past decade, human performance technology (HPT) has become an important source of rigor and application in support of best practices in capacity development. HPT shares common principles with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development best practices. This article explores HPT's critical role as the methodology of choice…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Best Practices, Capacity Building, Institutional Role
King, Kathleen P. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Based on the theory of transformative learning (Mezirow, 1980) and critical pedagogy (Freire, 1980), mixed-methods research (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 1998) of a hospital workers' union and training organization addressed the impact of a custom-designed, group-focused, results-driven professional development model with 130 participants. Employees…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Transformative Learning, Professional Development, Participant Satisfaction
McElroy, Arnold D., Jr.; Pan, Cheng-Chang – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This study was designed to explore the effectiveness in student performance and confidence of limited and full device simulators. The 30 employees from an information technology company who participated in this study were assigned to one of three groups. Each group received practice for learning a complex software procedure using traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation
Yoon, Seung Won; Song, Ji Hoon; Lim, Doo Hun – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This integrative literature review synthesizes the concepts and process of organizational knowledge creation with theories of individual learning. The knowledge conversion concept (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka, Toyama, & Byosiere, 2001) is used as the basis of the organizational knowledge creation process, while major learning theories relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Processes
Brock, Timothy R. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
Development research methodology (DRM) has been recommended as a viable research approach to expand the practice-to-theory/theory-to-practice literature that human performance technology (HPT) practitioners can integrate into the day-to-day work flow they already use to develop instructional products. However, little has been written about how it…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Performance Technology, Program Development
An Exploratory Study of the Relationship between Knowledge Management and Performance Professionals.
Marshall, James; Rossett, Allison – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2000
Discusses knowledge management and considers how the profession has developed from job aids and documentation. Topics include organizational culture and policies; access to information; enabling technologies; customer focus; training for knowledge management; and leadership roles played by knowledge management and performance professionals.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Documentation, Leadership, Performance Technology
Ma, Yuxin; Harmon, Stephen W. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
The field of training and development has been increasingly affected by knowledge management, performance support, and learning technologies, yet the impact of these disciplines has typically been disjointed and uncoordinated. Projects in each of the disciplines are often implemented systematically, but not systemically. To take full advantage of…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Performance Technology, Models, Systems Approach
Gery, Gloria – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1995
Examines attributes, characteristics, and behaviors of performance-centered software packages that are emerging in the consumer software marketplace and compares them with large-scale systems software being designed by internal information systems staffs and vendors of large-scale software designed for financial, manufacturing, processing, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Performance Technology
Ardichvili, Alexander – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Identifies leadership styles of Russian enterprise managers and determines how theses styles are related to employees' subjective evaluation of managerial performance. Highlights include laissez-faire leadership, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership; international leadership research; and implications for Russian leadership…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Foreign Countries, International Relations
Schwen, Thomas M.; Kalman, Howard K.; Evans, Michael A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
This article introduces a strategic argument and examples, in subsequent articles in this special issue, about sociocultural research opportunities for HPT practitioners and scholars. The authors take the view that recent criticisms of Instructional Systems Design have merit when considered from an organizational performance point of view. We see…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Instructional Systems, Research Opportunities, Instructional Design
Okurowski, Mary Ellen; Clark, Ruth – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Discussion of information technology training focuses on an evaluative study at the Department of Defense that investigated whether new information technology training could improve job performance. Highlights include determining training effectiveness; job transfer evaluation; return on investment; use of software features; and the impact of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Information Technology
Marken, James A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
Activity Theory has often been used in workplace settings to gain new theoretical understandings about work and the humans who engage in work, but rarely has there been sufficient detail in the literature to allow HPT practitioners to do their own activity analysis. The detail presented in this case is sufficient for HPT practitioners to begin to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Work Environment, Corporations
