Approaches: Aligning Business, HR and Talent Development Efforts
Generations
Functional Strategies for Talent Development
Employee Development
100
In this approach, a comprehensive HR plan is needed before the strategy can be formulated to guide the talent development effort.
What is "the top down approach. " P. 777
100
A characteristic that distingushes a superior from a fully successful learner.
What is Learning Competency?
100
He is the author of well over 70 books including The Strategic Development of Talent: A framework for using talent to support your organizational strategy?
Who is William J. Rothewell?
100
This is performed for the purpose of preparing employees so that they can move with the organization as it develops, changes and grows.
What is Employee Development? p.323
200
The large drawback to this approach is that the future is not as certain nor as well defined as the past or present, meaning that their learning plans should include contingency plans to cope with unexpected changes.
What is "the artificial experience approach." p.846
200
The acronym for this phrase is WLP.
What is Workplace Learning Performance?
200
This assembly consists of an employee, the employees's immediate supervisor, and other employees who wrok together.
What is the Work Group? p.259
200
This process utilizes an organization or group formed for the purposed of devoting special attention to a specific problem or a group of related problems.
What is a Think Tank? p.340
300
In this approach, practitioners must first establish individual development programs to provide structure for negotiations between individuals and their superiors.
What is "The Career Planning Approach?" p.815
300
This is most utilized training method within organizations.
What is On the job training?
300
Known as one of the modern pioneers of social, organizational, and applied psychology, this Polish-American concluded that group norms pose barriers to change because individual behavior is at odds with group norms, the individuals will be pressured by group members to conform to accepted practices.
Who is Kurt Lewin? p.259
300
This long term formalized program is commonly used in management development.
What is a mentoring program? p.329
400
HRD Professionals collect information about how well strategic plans are being implemented and feed that information back to the strategists for use in making improvements to strategy.
What is Pulse-Taking? p.846
400
The process of identifying the root causes of human performance problems and finding solutions or interventions to address those causes.
What is Human Performance Improvement?
400
Persuasion, coercion, and this method are three general approaches to change in any organization.
What is Education? p.258
400
This program builds bridges between a corporation and institutions exerting broad influence.
What is an exchange program? p.330
500
In this approach, practitioners must build their efforts on the perceived needs of their stakeholders.
What is "the Market Driven Approach?" p.793
500
The two ways that in the job training can completed.
What is Unsystematically, Systematically?
500
This term means the acquisition of knowledge and is a means for individuals and groups to adapt to external change.
What is Learning? p.259
500
This approach often stems from pressing organizational needs, such as a lack of talent in one location and a surplus of talent in another.
What are Job Transfers? p.331
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