Organizational Behavior: Article Review on Learning & Development

This report is an article review of "How learning and development are becoming more agile" from the Harvard Business Review, analyzing its impact on employee motivation and talent retention. The review examines the need for the study, focusing on how development and learning influence organizational behavior and employee performance. The critique highlights the strengths, such as considering current business scenarios and the role of technology, while also pointing out limitations like the absence of primary research and statistical data. The report concludes with recommendations, including the use of primary data sources like surveys and considering external factors influencing the agile workforce. The article discusses the relevance of an agile workforce through development and learning and considers secondary research for understanding the relevance of innovation that impacts employee's motivation and increase in the use of agile workforce in organizations as per current scenario.

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Organization Behavior
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Contents
Executive summary.........................................................................................................................2
Need for study..................................................................................................................................3
Critique............................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion and recommendations...................................................................................................5
Works Cited.....................................................................................................................................6

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Executive summary
The problem identified to be studied the development and learning in the organization and its
impact over the employee's motivation and retaining talent. For this, the article selected for
understanding is “How learning and development are becoming more agile.” The article includes
the discussion over the workforces that are designed for flexibility and speed. Who is considered
to be beneficial for achieving organizational goals. The research include collaborative reinforces
at agile talent. The trends adopted in the article include use of technology in human resource
training and development, team based learning. The article considers various practical examples
for better understanding like leadership at Wal-Mart.

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Need for study
The need for selecting the specific article is the key discussion in the article includes
development considering various workplaces learning which could lead to motivating learning.
Moreover, the evidence suggests that that development and learning of the employees for
motivational level is a key aspect of organizational behavior (Abdulraheem Sal, 2016). The
reason being motivation plays vital role in organizational behavior as it includes the behavior and
factors that will be held responsible for effective performance of the employees.
The article includes secondary research through organizational case example (hbr, 2016).
Moreover, the article also considers customers as one of the stakeholders that are responsible for
retaining agile talent for the company. The study suggests that the innovation is one of the
reasons for organizational success and for which it is important to have agile talent to again
advantage from different mindset. The reason being they will be responsible for the new idea
generation and implementation of innovation and change in the organization (Dawson &
Andriopolous, 2014). The evidence suggests that the factors in the success of wall mart and the
companies that are the startups who will be looking forwards freelance technical talent and ways
to see the risk, challenges and opportunities will be depended on the agile human resource for the
company. They included the learning opportunities, networking opportunities and relationship of
employees within the organization. Other than this it has been identified that the whole team
investment has become critical in nature which reflects the reason for companies to depend on
freelancers, due to availability of the workforce and do not take time in place staffing. The
training and development investment increase with time, as suggested by the training magazine

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while observing the increase in training expenditure by 14 percent from 2014 to 2015 (Tidd &
Bessant, 2013).
Critique
Some of the positive aspects identified through the article is considering the current business
scenario to understanding the role of innovation and agile workforce for the organizational
advantage and learning opportunities for human resources. The technology was also considered,
which found to be an important element in any organization due to increase in digitalization
among the industries. Moreover, the research provides good amount of evidence and validity due
to use of current and practical example or case of Wal-Mart (DuBrin, 2016).
However, the critique of the study includes the limitation of use of statistical information and
limited to secondary research. The reliability of the research increases with the primary research,
due to increased reliability on analyzing the perception and different viewpoints. The report
could have included the use of primary survey method from the employees for understanding the
relevance of innovation, development and learning to act as the motivational level. The study
was limited to the agility in the workforce impacted by learning and development, where there
are various other factors and introduction of the industries, which have increased the cause for
agile human resource (Cannon & Edmondson, 2005).

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Conclusion and recommendations
From the article review, it can be concluded that the article “How learning and development are
becoming more agile” suggest the relevance of agile workforce through development and
learning and considered the secondary research for understanding the relevance of innovation
that impacts the employee’s motivation and increase in use of agile workforce in organizations as
per current scenario. The article considers various practical examples for better understanding
like leadership at Wal-Mart. The evidence suggests that the factors in the success of wall mart
and the companies that are the startups included the learning opportunities, networking
opportunities and relationship of employees within the organization.
From the analysis, the recommendations would include
 Use of primary source of data like survey from organizational leaders and employees to
understand different viewpoints and make the study more reliable
 It is recommended to consider other environmental and external factors that could be
responsible for the influencing the use of agile workforce in the organization and cause
for motivation in the organization (hbr, 2016).

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Works Cited
Abdulraheem Sal, M. (2016). The Impact of Training and Development on Employees
Performance and Productivity. International Journal of Management Sciences and
Business Research, 5(7), 2226-8235.
Cannon, M., & Edmondson, A. (2005). Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently):
How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve. Long Range
Planning, 20(2), 247-61.
Dawson, P., & Andriopolous, C. (2014). Managing Change, Creativity and Organisation.
London: Sage.
DuBrin, A. (2016). Leadership: research findings, practice, and skils (8 ed.). Mason, OH: South-
Western Cengage Learning.
hbr. (2016). how-learning-and-development-are-becoming-more-agile. Retrieved 2019, from
https://hbr.org/2016/10/how-learning-and-development-are-becoming-more-agile
Tidd, J., & Bessant, J. (2013). Managing Innovation: integrating technological, market and
organisational change (5th ed.). chichester: Wiley.