Human Resources Development

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Human Resources Development
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Human Resources
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LO1 Understand learning theories and learning styles....................................................................2
Compare the different learning styles..........................................................................................2
Explanation of the role of the learning curve and the importance of transfer learning to the
workplace.....................................................................................................................................3
Assessment of the contribution of different learning styles and theories on the planning and
designing of a learning/training event..........................................................................................4
LO2 Ability to plan and design training and development..............................................................4
Compare and discuss the training needs of staff at different levels of an organisation...............5
Assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of the methods of training used in an
organisation..................................................................................................................................5
Use a systematic approach to planning training and development for a training event for new
employees in an organisation.......................................................................................................6
LO3 Ability to evaluate a training event.........................................................................................6
Prepare an evaluation plan using suitable techniques you are planning for................................7
How to carry out an evaluation of the training event you have planned.....................................7
Review the success of the evaluation methods used....................................................................7
LO4 Understand government-led skills development initiatives....................................................7
Explain the role of government in training and development and the growing emphasis on
lifelong learning...........................................................................................................................7
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Explanation of the development of the competency movement has impacted on the public and
private sectors..............................................................................................................................7
Assessment of contemporary training initiatives introduced by the UK government contribute
to human resources development of an organisation...................................................................7
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LO1 Understand learning theories and learning styles
Technically this project initiates the program of human resource development of the organisation
named as Tesco, Plc. The company is needed to train their employees in a perfect and
consecutive manner. (McGuire, Garavan and Dooley, 2012) The learning abilities of the
employees in the organisation should have to be emphasised as well as they can evaluate their
trained skills for the organisation. When an organisation gets some dedicated staffs for their
organisation, the company runs with much satisfaction. The workflow of the organisation goes to
the upward of the success. So that the procedure of training and development is much needed for
a reputed organisation.
Compare the different learning styles
There are some basic learning styles for an organisation by which the organisation can
improve the quality of the work of their employees. By the help of variant learning styles, the
employees of the organisation get able to access their talent and skills in a respective way so
that organisation as well as get the benefits from the market. (Saunders and Tosey, 2015)
Several kinds of learning styles are there through which the employees can make their skills
and knowledge for the sake of their work. The organisation needs all their workers to be
dedicated to the service of their consumers that is why every organisation wants their
employees to be wise enough that they can handle the different kinds of customers as well as
the customer services. (Rigg, Stewart and Trehan, 2008) Those variant learning styles are
discussed below which can improve the performance of the employees at the organisation.
Specified theories are there by which the learning procedure works with. Honey and
Mumford could define specific learning theories or styles by which an organisation can move
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towards betterment in the competing market of business. For Tesco Plc, there are such
relevant learning theories of Honey and Mumford. The learning theories are to be precise,
Activist, Reflectors, Theorists and finally Pragmatists. These all kinds of learning styles are
defined at the below of the text.
Activists
This is some learning style where the employees would discuss the different functions of
Tesco, as well as the abilities of the employees, would also be discussed here. To some
extent, this type of learning style is involved with a very practical forecast where the
employees will know how to work on different issues in the practical work field of the
organisation. (Ramnarayan and Rao, 2011) Along with this if the situation comes where the
company would try to introduce some new kind of grocery item in the market, the employees
will work on the research methodologies for the introduction of new product at the
competing industry of grocery items.
Reflectors
This specific type of learning procedure is involved to the matters of working style in the
field of work. As the employees can get the review of their work performance, they can work
on it to emphasise the skills they have. On the other hand, the employees can make sure that
they can expand their qualities which are involved in increasing the betterment of the
organisation as well as the personal talents which the employees have gotten already. In
Tesco, the employees can be able to get a lot of feedback from the consumers or the
customers of the company. (Vandeveer and Menefee, 2010) The colleagues of the workers
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can also provide the feedback and it also help to review the personal skills and talents and
those can be enhanced by the workers as well as; so that this theory of learning procedure can
help the employees to achieve the good will at the organisation.
Theorists
This particular type of learning procedure would help to analyse the workers that have
involved the employees in a specific job. In this learning program, the employees would be
given some strategic work to evaluate. Workers would find the difficulties for this specific
work and put their methodologies to apply there, and the work would be analysed critically
which would also help the employees to make decisions over that task. The employees will
reach to all the positive and negative approaches to the work, and then the work will have
proceeded towards the conclusion this whole procedure works over very minute and precise
analysis so that the expected conclusion would be easy enough for the employees who are
working on this specific work or task.
Pragmatists
Before initiating a wok, it is needed the planning procedure. How the work would be done in
the smoothest way, it can have. In Tesco Plc, the workers are needed to differentiate the task
properly at first. Then the planning procedure would be analysed critically so that the work
may go through the simplest method it can have. As the employees of the company can get
new as well as hard challenges in their work field, the employees would be habituated in
some kinds of works which are filled with such difficulties. But this learning procedure
would help to solve those difficulties by applying fruitful plans upon it.
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