Assignment:
Seminar in Public Human Resources Administration:
Questions & Key Terms [Day Four]
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1. Identify the relationship between training and strategic planning. Can you give an example from an organization you are familiar with that illustrates how training is or should be connected to strategic thinking about agency goals?
2. Distinguish between training, education, and staff development as part of the development function.
3. Briefly describe training needs assessment, design, and evaluation.
4. Describe four operational functions of a performance appraisal system. Do you think all four can be accomplished with one appraisal method? Are the four functions complementary?
5. Why is performance appraisal associated most closely with civil service systems? How has it contributed to public perceptions that civil service systems are inefficient or ineffective, in comparison with those systems based on employment at will?
6. Identify the contemporary challenges to performance appraisal. How is the tension between administrative efficiency and individual rights reflected in the appraisal function?
7. Identify the six characteristics of an effective rating system. Which of the six do you believe are the more difficult to implement?
8. Utilize an expectancy theory perspective and analyze the motivation of supervisors to rate the performance of subordinates honestly and accurately.
Key Terms: Please define and give one example
1. Basic skill development vs Continuous learning
2. Coaching and counseling
3. Development function/ On-the-job training [OJT]
4. Organization development (OD)
5. Staff development vs Team building
6. 360-degree evaluation
7. Behaviorally anchored rating scale (bars)
8. Critical incident (work sampling)
9. Forced-choice techniques vs.Graphic-rating scale
10. Performance-based rating system vs Person-based rating system
Attachment:- Training-Education and Staff Development.rar