Assignment on Learning Styles and Its Importance - Sun Court Ltd
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Assignment on Learning Styles and Its Importance - Sun Court Ltd
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1TASK 1 ........................................................................................................................................11.1 Different learning styles........................................................................................................11.2 Role of learning curve and significance of transferring learning at workplace....................21.3 Contribution of learning theories and styles in planning and developing learningprogramme..................................................................................................................................34.1 Government role in training, development & life long learning...........................................34.2 Impact of competency movement on private and public section..........................................44.3 Contribution of contemporary training initiatives in human resource development............5TASK 2 ...........................................................................................................................................62.1 Training needs for staff at different level in an organization................................................62.2 Advantage and disadvantage of training methods................................................................72.3 Systematic approach to plan training and development for a training event........................83.1 Prepare an evaluation of training an event............................................................................93.2 Measures of evaluating training event................................................................................103.2 Reviewing the success of evaluation...................................................................................11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................13
INTRODUCTION Human Resource Development deals with providing learning and training to theworkforce so that their skills and abilities are developed and administer those benefits for longterm. It is a broad concept and necessary for every organisation in order to improve theperformance of firm as well as its employees. Appropriate training and learning provides overalldevelopment to the individual which helps them in their career growth. It also assists inincreasing the productivity and profitability of firm (Armstrong and Taylor, 2014). In the presentreport, given organisation is Sun Court Ltd. which is engaged in management and property. Theassignment covers various styles of learning and its importance in transferring knowledge.Contribution of different styles and theories at the time of planning and formulating a learningprogramme is also defined in the report. Apart from this, government role in training and lifelonglearning as well as utilization of systematic approach in planning an appropriate training event isdefined. Besides this, need of training for manpower at top, middle and operational level alongwith advantages and disadvantages of different methods of training is determined. Influence ofcompetency movement on public as well as private sectors and role of contemporary traininginitiatives in development of human resources is also explained in this assignment. TASK 1 1.1 Different learning stylesEvery business organisation used different styles of learning in order to improve theperformance of firm as well as its employees. These refer to the methods in which individual isable to gain learning at workplace. Each learning style defines the preferred way of processingand receiving information to learn something. All persons are different from each other in termsof their skills, abilities and knowledge. They perform task in their own manner. It is necessaryfor an organisation to conduct appropriate training and development programme so that skills ofemployees can be increased and they are able to perform their tasks in an effective manner.Identification of suitable learning style assists the manager in making training events easy andunderstandable to employees (Bakker and Leiter, 2010). Some learning styles that are adopted bythe workforce are defined as below: Visual learning: It is a common style in which individuals can learn only by seeing somepictures, images or other things. This style of learning assists in improving the reading1
comprehension, high order thinking, critical thinking skills and other abilities of an individual.Information and knowledge is gained only by visioning something which includes maps, graphs,charts, pictures, images, presentations, etc. Auditory learning: In this style, learners can gain knowledge by the way of listening. Inorder to gain new information and knowledge, speaking and hearing are considered as theprimary ways on which learners rely. In auditory learning style, the methods involved are voicerecording, debates, discussions, musical notes, lectures, etc. But, sometimes, it may be difficultfor the learner to retain complete information that is provided to them (Bratton and Gold, 2012). Kinaesthetic learning: Physical activities, body movements and touch are involved inthis kind of learning. This is the most preferred style used by organisation in order to administerknowledge to its employees. It is also known as tactile learning. For better understanding ofworking, employees perform physical activities that assist in making learning easy. The methodsinclude in this style of learning are field trips, role playing, simulation, etc. 1.2 Role of learning curve and significance of transferring learning at workplaceLearning is a process which is continuously adopted by every individual in order to learnnew things and develop their skills and abilities. Learning curve refers to a graphicalrepresentation which assists employees in determining their skills and knowledge level that theygain in training sessions. In Sun Court Ltd., it assists the managers in analysing performance ofworkforce at workplace. Learning curve is utilized in evaluating the performance of employees.It depicts interrelationship of cost and output on the basis of time. Learning curve scale helps inimproving the future performance of manpower and its evaluation is based on number ofattempts that an employee takes in completion of task. It assists in attaining the objectives ofcompany and improving performance of its employees (Cascio and Boudreau, 2010). As theexperience of an individual increases, their learning will also get enhanced. Importance of transferring learning: Every firm conducts training and learning programme for employees for the purpose ofincreasing their skills and knowledge. They use money and time in providing expertise to theirworkforce so that they will be able to take competitive advantage from the market. Firms expectfrom employees to transfer their knowledge at workplace so that objectives will be achievedefficiently. Significance of transferring learning are as follows: 2
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