Human Resource Development Assignment - H & M

Human Resource
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 The comparison among different learning styles.............................................................1
1.2 Importance of learning transfer in the work place environment and learning curve........2
1.3 Major importance of learning theories and styles during the planning and designing of a
learning event.........................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Comparison between training need at each level in an organisation................................3
2.2 The advantages and disadvantages for different methods of training..............................4
2.3 A systematic approach for plan a special training event..................................................5
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Evaluation form for considering what things learnt by the staff member and the usefulness
of the training and feedback about the trainer........................................................................6
3.3 The evaluation by the analyses of the feedbacks and responses to the evaluation form of
that particular training event...................................................................................................7
PART 2............................................................................................................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
4.1 Role of the government with regards to training, development and lifelong learning.....7
4.2 The development of the competency movement has impacted private and public sector
organisations...........................................................................................................................8
4.3 The different contemporary training initiatives by the UK government has contributed to
human resource development for H & M...............................................................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Development program is all about accomplishing the training and
development plan for employees and staff members of an organisation. It is a compulsory thing
because there are many new interns who come in the organisation and they may be unskilled or
semi-skilled (Albrecht and et.al., 2015). So, for this reason, a perfect training or induction should
be required for training and development. This report is based on company, H & M, situated in
Stockholm, Sweden. It is an online selling company that is engaged in selling of various products
and services. In this report, it includes the learning styles and theories. It also contains the plan
for design the plan for training and development of employees. Furthermore, it covers the
evaluation of training event Lastly, it provides an Essay about the topic ‘the future of skills and
lifelong learning in the UK.
PART 1
TASK 1
1.1 The comparison among different learning styles.
The learning styles are specific techniques, approaches and methods that for learning. It
refers to the set of behaviours, factors and attitudes to facilitate to an individual or a group for
their development. All these styles of learning, are serve like as an indicator that describe the
interaction, learning perceive and respond the environment (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). Every
learner has been consistent and distinct about preferred methods of perception, retention and
organization (Gottardello and Valverde, 2018). These differences are based on personality types
and preferences. In this context, there is a learning style that is described as below:
The Kolb’s Learning Styles – This theory or approach was produced by the David Kolb in 1984
and that time he argued about the learnings that come from the individual experiences. The
abstract concept of this theory is applied on an individual or a group for different situations. The
Kolb defines four types of learning styles that are defines as follows:
 Divergent Style – It is a special style that covers all things either can be do or reflect by
an individual. This is imaginative and good perspective that makes many ideas. It also
sees those things that are come from various perspectives, cultures and interest of people.
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 Convergent Style – This style is plan and conclusion based. It is practical theory and
focused on the specific issue in which an individual have narrow interests and
unemotional style. This is also known as the cognitive style.
 Assimilative Style – It is a style that includes theoretical part and good perspective plan
for solving many problems (Bailey and et.al., 2018). It prefers the abstract concepts and it
is not interested in the individual or group of persons.
 Accommodative Style – This styles refers to the likes or dislikes about a particular thing,
problem and risk. Any person can perform well and solve many issues intuitively if he or
she is under pressure.
1.2 Importance of learning transfer in the work place environment and learning curve.
The learning curve is a typical graphical representation of common sense principles and it
shows the rate of improvement of a particular work or function. It provides a special method that
is seen as an ability to learning about the object's (Bratton and Gold, 2017). It is a perfect
combination of time for learning and percentage of learnings. The relative percentage of learning
shows as the statistics or data of any subject that are mostly learned speedily while some
challenging factors may remain in plateaus in the graph.
Learning Transfer – It is refers as the degree to which a person applies for get knowledge about
the skills and learnings in different situation or condition. It is a state of dependency, on which it
depends on the human learnings and performance that is based on existing experience. The
process of learning is central thing about the understanding that how people can develop their
skills. The importance of learning transfer is describes as follows:
 The transfer of learning can arise due to the response of generalisation so there is a
similarity between two response situations.
 Learning Transfer has also categorized in the general transfer so it can be stimulus for
response generalisation (Brewster and Hegewisch, 2017).
 This transfer can be happen in positive or negative situation. In this context, the learning
experience can lead to the better learning program of subsequent task.
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