Analysis
Types of Training
Learning
Development
Terms
100
A process for determining the appropriateness of training by evaluating the characteristics of the organization.
What is Organizational Analysis?
100
Training methods in which a person with job experience and skills guides trainees in practising job skills at the work place.
What is On the Job Training?
100
Receiving training via Internet or the organizations intranet.
What is E-Learning?
100
A work-study training method that teaches job skills though a combination of on-the-job training and technical training.
What is Apprenticeships ?
100
Prose, document, and quantitative capabilities in the languages in which business is conducted.
What is Workplace Literacy?
200
A process for determining individuals needs and readiness for training.
What is Person Analysis?
200
Training designed to change employee attitudes about diversity and or develop skills needed to work with a diverse workforce.
What is Diversity Training?
200
Training in which teams get an actual problem, work on solving it and commit to an action plan, and are accountable for carrying it out.
What is Action Learning?
200
On-the-job learning sponsored by an educational institution as a component of an academic program.
What is Internship?
200
A career that frequently changes based on changes in the persons interest, abilities, and values and in the work environment.
What is Protean Career?
300
The process of identifying the tasks and competencies that training should emphasize.
What is Task Analysis ?
300
Team training in which team members understand and practise each others skills so that they are prepared to step in and take another members place.
What is Cross-Training?
300
A teamwork and leadership training program based on the use of challenging, structured outdoor activities.
What is Adventure Learning?
300
Employee development through a full-time temporary position at another organization.
What is Externship?
300
A leave of absence from an organization to renew or develop skills.
What is Sabbatical?
400
The process of evaluating the organization, individual employees, and employees tasks to determine what kinds of training, if any, are necessary.
What is Needs Assessment?
400
Team training that teaches the team how to share information and make decisions to obtain the best team performance.
What is Coordination Training?
400
Training programs in which participants learn concepts and apply them by simulating behaviours involved and analyzing the activity, connecting it with real-life situations.
What is Experiential Programs?
400
A plan of higher education that incorporates paid work experience as an integral part of academic studies.
What is Cooperative Education?
400
A training method that represents a real life situation, with trainees making decisions resulting in outcomes that mirror what would happen on the job.
What is Simulation?
500
A combination of employee characteristics and possitive work environment that permit training.
What is Readiness for Training?
500
An organizations planned efforts to help employees acquire job-related competencies with the goal of applying these on the job.
What is Training?
500
Training designed to prepare employees to preform their jobs effectively, learn about their organization, and establish work relationships.
What is Orientation?
500
The Combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and competencies to help employees prepare for the future of their careers.
What is Employee Development?
500
An experienced, productive senior employee who helps develop a less experienced employee (a protege or mentee).
What is a Mentor?
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