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The director of sales and marketing for a Warner Brothers theme park has been working in Madrid. She is getting ready to return to the United States. What should Warner Brothers do to ensure her
What are virtual expatriates? What are their advantages and disadvantages for the company and the manager?
What does the “rigor” of a cross-cultural training program refer to? What factors influence the level of training rigor needed?
List the five dimensions of culture. How does each of the dimensions affect employee behavior?
Discuss the steps in preparing a manager to go overseas.
What are some potential legal issues that a trainer should consider before deciding to run an adventure learning program?
Go to www.dukece.com, a provider of custom corporate education programs. Click on Client stories and read one of the client success stories. Prepare a brief summary of the business issue, approach,
Go to www.keirsey.com. Complete the Keirsey Temperament Sorter or the Keirsey Character Sorter. (You will have to register first.) These are examples of assessment instruments that can be used for
Go to General Electric’s Web site at www.gecareers.com. Review the entry-level leadership and experienced leadership programs. Overall, what type of development activities are included in these
Read the article, “Baby Boomers Seek New Ways to Escape Career Claustrophobia,” in The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2003: B1. It describes the challenges of motivating managers who have limited
Your manager wants you to create a one-page form for development planning. Create the form, and provide a rationale for each category you include on it.
What can companies do to ensure that tuition reimbursement programs are worth the investment?
How do volunteer assignments and job experiences contribute to employee development?
Discuss the characteristics of the most effective company development strategies. Which characteristic do you believe is most important? Why?
Discuss reasons why many managers are reluctant to coach their employees.
What is coaching? Is there only one type of coaching? Explain.
Many employees are unwilling to relocate geographically because they like their current community and because spouses and children prefer not to move. As a result, it is difficult to develop
Your boss is interested in hiring a consultant to help identify potential managers from current employees of a fast-food restaurant. The manager’s job is to help wait on customers and prepare food
Why do companies develop formal mentoring programs? What are the potential benefits for the mentor and for the protégé? What is the best way to match mentors and protégés?
How can competencies be used in employee development?
What role does assessment have in employee development? Can assessment alone be effective for development? Why or why not?
8. Go to www.youtube.com. Search for “Training in Second Life” or “Training Simulation sin Second Life.” Choose and review a video of one of the many different types of training offered in
Go to www.capellauniversity.edu, the Web site for Capella University—a university that offers online courses. Click on Online Learning on the left side of the page. View the short course demo and
Go to www.isense.com, the Web site for InterSense, a company that develops and markets motion tracking projects used for commercial applications. Click on either Military or Industrial markets.
Go to www.mzinga.com. Mzinga provides software solutions for learning. Click on Technology. Then click on Mzinga Social Learning Suite. What learning solutions are provided by the Social Learning
Go to www.skillsoft.com, the Web site for Skillsoft, a company that specializes in providing e-learning solutions. Move the cursor over Info Center, then over Demos. Click on Business Skills Demos.
The Interactive Patient is a realistic interactive computer simulation of a patient’s visit to a physician’s office. The Interactive Patient is a Web-based training program used to train medical
Using only the Web, further investigate any new technology discussed in this chapter. Utilizing any search engine on the Web (e.g., Google, Yahoo), conduct a search for information about the
How can interactive voice technology and imaging help with training administration?
What are some potential problems with using virtual reality technology for training?
Are training support technologies always needed? Justify your answer.
What are some advantages and disadvantages of multimedia training?
Go to www.5off5on.com, the Web site for Pit Instruction and Training, a company that provides training for racing pit crews as well as team training. Enter the site. Click on Lean Performance U and
Go to www.drumcafe.com, a company that specializes in corporate team building through the use of drum circles. Review the Web site and answer the following questions:a. What are drum circles? What
Go to www.doleta.gov/atels_bat/, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Registered Apprenticeship Web site. Complete one of the following activities by writing a short paper and/or discussing your answers
Review one of the following Web sites, which feature simulations: www.incomeoutcome.com or www.celemi.com. Describe the situation that the simulation is designed to represent. What elements in the
Divide into teams of two students. One student should be designated as a “trainer,” the other as a “trainee.” The trainee should briefly leave the room while the trainer reads the
Go to www.sabrehq.com, the Web site for Sabre Corporate Development. Click on Team Building Events. Choose one of the activities and events found on this page, and review it. Discuss what you would
Choose a job with which you are familiar. Develop a self-directed learning module for a skill that is important for that job.
Discuss the steps of an action learning program. Which aspect of action learning do you think is most beneficial for learning? Which aspect is most beneficial for transfer of training? Explain why.
Table 7.10 compares training methods on a number of characteristics. Explain why simulation and behavior modeling receive high ratings for transfer of training.
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the lecture, the case study, and behavior modeling?
Go to www.roiinstitute.net, the web site for ROI Institute, Inc., the leading resource on research, training, and networking for practitioners of the Phillips ROI Methodology.TM Click on “Tools.”
Cablevision developed an e-learning course that taught salespersons how to increase the number of cable television subscribers, thereby increasing revenue. The company wants to know if salespersons
Sears designed a training program to improve tool and hardware sales. The two-hour program involved distance learning and was broadcast from the Sears training facility to 50 salespersons at 10 store
Domino’s Pizza was interested in determining whether a new employee could learn how to make a pizza using a computer-based training method (CD-ROM). The CD-ROM application addresses the proper
What acceptable methods can be used to show the costs and benefits of training without collecting statistics and conducting analyses? Explain these methods and their strengths and weaknesses
What metrics might be useful for evaluating the effectiveness of a company’s training function? Discuss and rate their importance.
How might you estimate the benefits of a training program designed to teach employees how to use the World Wide Web to monitor stock prices?
This chapter discussed several factors that influence the choice of evaluation design. Which of these factors would have the greatest influence on your choice of an evaluation design? Which would
What are results outcomes? Why do you think most organizations don’t use results outcomes for evaluating their training programs?
. The mission at Tires Plus’s headquarters and its 500 stores in 22 states is to encourage employees to be the same at work as they are in every other area of their lives. Tires Plus sells and
. What is human capital? How is human capital influencing the changing role of training from skill and knowledge acquisition to creating and sharing knowledge?
. Compare and contrast the corporate university model with the faculty model. How are they similar? How do they differ?
. Evaluate Nextel Communications’s training organization using the five competencies of the business-embedded model. Would you consider Nextel Communications’s training organization to be a BE
. Are any of the strategic training and development initiatives more important for small business? Explain.
. Which strategic training and development initiatives do you think all companies should support in today’s economic climate? Why?
. Shering-Plough HealthCare Products Inc. decided several years ago to expand its product line by developing pocket-size sticks and sprays of Coppertone sunblocks, previously only available as
. Which model or combination of models is best for organizing the training function? Why?
. Discuss what factors need to be considered before making the decision to outsource training.
. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of organizing the training function according to the faculty, customer, matrix, corporate university, and business-embedded models.
. Explain how the role of training is changing.
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