School Of ManagementEmployee Training and DevelopmentWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 61422.1
Discipline: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Student Contribution Band: 3
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
200610 - Employee Training and Development
Prerequisite
200300 Managing People at Work
About this Unit
This unit has been replaced by 200610 - Employee Training and Development. The unit explores such questions as: Training -- what is it? How is it linked to strategic development? It explores education versus training versus development; managing the training department, upper management involvement, career development; cost-effectiveness of training and development; training and development needs -- how people learn, implications for training and development of staff, models and roles for training; needs analysis, objective setting, and the implications of politics, culture and government; curriculum -- methods content, people, sequencing of curriculum; the advantages and disadvantages of various training methods; measurement of success philosophies, instruments of measurement and post-training measurement.