To familiarize the students with the concept and practice of training and management development in the modern organizational setting through text and cases.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
Unit I (3 Weeks)
Training in Organizations and Training Need Analysis:
An overview of training; role of training and development in HRD; opportunities and challenges for training; training and organizational development; setting training objectives;Spiral model of training.
Need to conduct Training Need Analysis (TNA), TNA Model, need assessment process: organizational analysis, person analysis, task analysis; output of TNA, approaches to TNA: Proactive TNA, Reactive TNA.
References:
Blanchard P. Nick and Thacker James, Effective Training, Systems, Strategies and Practices, 5th ed. Pearson. [ Chapter 1,2,3 and 4]
Bhatia S.K., Training & Development, Deep & Deep Publishers. [ Chapter 1]
Lynton Rolf and Pareek Udai, Training & Development, Prentice Hall. [ Chapter 1]
Unit II (3 Weeks)
Training Design and Evaluation:
Designing training programs: Organizational constraints, training objectives, facilitation of learning, facilitation of transfer; Post training: Training evaluation, Training impact on individuals and organizations, Evaluating Programmes, Participants, Objectives.
References:
Blanchard P. Nick and Thacker James, Effective Training, Systems, Strategies and Practices, 5th ed. Pearson. [ Chapter 5 and 9]
Lynton Rolf and Pareek Udai, Training & Development, Prentice Hall. [ Chapter 2 ]
Unit III (3 Weeks)
Training Methods:
Training methods: Lectures and demonstrations; Games and Simulations: Equipment simulators, business games, In-basket technique. Case studies, role play, behaviour modelling, Job instruction technique, apprenticeship, coaching, mentoring, experiential training, vestibule training; Computer based training methods.
References:
Blanchard P. Nick and Thacker James, Effective Training, Systems, Strategies and Practices, 5th ed. Pearson. [ Chapter 6 and 7]
Bhatia S.K., Training & Development, Deep & Deep Publishers. [ Chapter 5,6,7,8,9 and 10]
Unit IV (3 Weeks)
Management Development:
Management development: concept, Strategies and management characteristics, management development implications, Types of management development programs, Development methods: Action learning, job rotation, executive development programs, special job assignments, team building, coaching, and mentoring.
References:
Blanchard P. Nick and Thacker James, Effective Training, Systems, Strategies and Practices, 5th ed. Pearson. [ Chapter 11]
Bhatia S.K., Training & Development, Deep & Deep Publishers. [ Chapter 19]
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