Human Resource Development: Applying Learning Styles at McDonald's

This report provides an overview of Human Resource Development (HRD) and its application in developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and competencies of employees, specifically within the context of McDonald's. It explores various learning styles, including the VARK model (Visual, Aural, Reading & Writing, Kinesthetic), Kolb's model (assimilating, diverging, converging, accommodating), and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. The report also discusses the importance of the learning curve in tracking employee experience and learning, as well as the significance of transferring learning to the workplace to overcome challenges, utilize costs effectively, and add value. Furthermore, it highlights the contribution of learning styles and theories in planning and designing learning events to meet McDonald's strategic objectives, emphasizing the need to consider diverse learning preferences and patterns to ensure the success of training programs. The document concludes by referencing relevant academic sources.

Human Resource
Development
 Process of developing knowledge, skills, attitude
and competencies of employees.
 This framework mainly deals with the
development and training of human resources
who works in firm.

Task 1- 1.1
Different types of learning styles:
VARK style
Has four types of learners
• Visual
• Aural
• Reading & writing
• Kinesthetic

Visual learners - video, graphics
Aural learners – audio
Reading & writing – read and note down the
content in notebook.
Kinesthetic - gain information by touching and
doing the things.

learning styles...
Kolb model
 assimilating type learners - requires the clear logic and its
explanation.
 diverging type learners - look at things from various
perspectives.
 Converging type learners- prefers technical tasks.
 Accommodating type learners - experiential, practical
approach and also feel attracted towards new experience
and challenges.

learning styles...
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
 uses the “Type indicator tool” to measure and evaluates
the psychological type of learners.
 This tool includes various types of questions.
 By using this questionnaire tool, learning style of
employees could be recognized.
 This theory defines 16 types of personalities such as
ESTJ (extra-version, sensing, thinking and judging).

TASK 1- 1.2
Learning curve
 It is continuous type process of learning
 Defines employee's increment of experience and learning
through graphical representation.
 Experience is represented on horizontal axis and learning on
vertical axis.

Importance of learning curve
 Employees would be more focused on their
development and career path.
 It represents the employees about their rise and
fall in experience and learning.
 Helps to evaluate the impact of training and
development programs.

Importance of transferring learning
to workplace
 Overcome on challenges
 Cost utilization
 Values addition

TASK 1- 1.3
Contribution of learning styles and theories when
planning and designing a learning event
 To meet the strategic objectives and goals of McDonald,
learning styles are essentially required to train the
employees in effective manner.
 Learning theories and styles are required to be considered
because it would make the event more successful.
 By using the different types of learning styles and
theories, the learning preferences and patterns of
employee would be recognized.

 Each employee prefer to gain the information in different
way such as by watching presentation or listening lectures
etc.
 By focusing on objectives and motives of cited firm, it is
important to analyse the impact of different types of
styles.
 If only one style is selected then there are chances of
problem occurrence.

REFERENCES
Takahashi, N., 2013. Behind the Learning Curve. Annals of
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Argote, L., 2012. Organizational learning: Creating, retaining
and transferring knowledge. Springer Science & Business
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Pritchard, A., 2013. Ways of learning: Learning theories and
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VARK Learning Styles, 2015. [Online]. Available through:
<http://psychology.about.com/od/educationalpsychology/a/
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