Report on Human Resource Management : Sun Court Residential Limited

HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Different styles of learning....................................................................................................3
1.2 Role of learning curve and significance of transfer learning................................................5
1.3 Contribution of learning styles when designing an event ....................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Compare training needs for staff at various levels of organisation.......................................6
2.2 Advantages and disadvantages of different training methods ..............................................7
2.3 Systematic approach of planning towards training and development..................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 Using suitable techniques design an evaluation for training event ....................................10
Training Evaluation Form:........................................................................................................12
3.2 Evaluation of training event................................................................................................12
3.3 Review the success of training event .................................................................................13
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
4.1 Role of government in training, development and lifelong learning..................................14
4.2 Assess how development of competency movement has affect both public and private
sector.........................................................................................................................................15
4.3 Various training initiatives introduced by UK Government...............................................16
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Human Resource Development (HRD) refers to the framework that mainly deals in
providing training and development to employees. It assists in enhancing personal and
organisational knowledge, skills and abilities of personnel(Pieper, Mkandawire and Van der
Hoeven, 2016). The main focus of all aspects of HRD is on developing and designing the most
superior workforce that aims at achieving the organisational goal in an effective manner.
According to Leonard Nadler, “It is a series of organised activities that help employees in
continuous and planned way so that they can accomplish their specific task in cost-effective and
timely manner. It makes people more knowledgeable and competent. With the help of
appropriate HRD technique, workers become more committed towards their job and it also leads
to improve their both professional and personal skills. The given report is based on Sun Court
Residential Homes Limited that provide accommodation to Old Age people. This report mainly
talks about designing of various training and development needs & techniques, different styles of
learning, importance of transfer learning, role of government towards lifelong learning and
lastly, training initiatives taken by UK Government.
TASK 1
1.1 Different styles of learning
Learning refers to the act of gaining knowledge so as to improve existing skills and mental level.
It is an on-going process that has been designed by individual to acquire something in order to
improve their knowledge regarding any particular filed or subject. It brings change in individual
performance and raise the potential of the same. There are various theories given by different
authors that discusses about learning style of the employee relation. Two of them are discussed
below with similarities and differences:
Kolb's Theory: It was published by David Kolb in 1984. He states that learning can be acquire
from experience depending upon the individual how they perceive it. Kolb's identifies four
different types of learning styles which are discussed below:
1. Diverging: People under this style of learning believes in gaining knowledge through
watching and feeling. Such kind of persons are imaginative in nature and therefore,
resolve issues by idea generation process (Brewster, Mayrhofer and Morley, 2016).

2. Assimilating: This is thinking and watching approach, Under this, individual observe the
scenario and then think logically about it so as to figure out best possible solution for the
same.
3. Converging: People under this approach practically discover the solution for the problem
or issue. Along with thinking in logical manner, they also believe in applying the factors
and other essential elements in practical way as per their learning experiences (Baum,
2016).
4. Accommodating: This level believes in doing thing as per person's intuition. Individual
under this handle the things according to their intuition instead of doing it logically.
Honey and Mumford Model
This model also talks into account various styles of learning which are discussed below:
1. Activists: Under this, people prefer to learn by doing things. They put themselves into
real experience and action regarding what they are trying to learn. Such type of
individuals are open-mind. They don't involve themselves into biases situation. They like
to brainstorm and they are very much active in problem solving session and group
discussion.
2. Theorists: Under this employees of Sun Court seek learning by trying to understand the
theory behind the objectives and topics. They gain their learning through reading models,
stories, quotes and moreover they like to appreciate the background information which
they found interesting.
3. Pragmatists: They are the one who learn through applying their practices in real or
practical situation. They don't prefer to learn via games or theories. They are the one who
keeps on doing experiment with learning theories and techniques and enhance learning by
doing actual work.
4. Reflector: They are the one who believes in learning through observing and watching
others.
Similarities and Differences between learning styles
 Assimilating and conversing approach are similar to each other because in both
approaches a person is observe the situation and thinking logically and find out the
solution.