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What are the advantages and disadvantages of job sharing from the company’s perspective?
The director of sales and marketing for a Warner Brothers theme park has been working in Madrid. She is getting ready to return to the United States.
What does “managing diversity” mean to you? Assume you are in charge of developing a diversity training program.
What are Lifelong Learning Accounts? Do you think they help retain employees or encourage them to train and then leave the company?
In the accounting profession, both men and women have excellent career opportunities with major firms.
What stage of career development are you in? What career concerns are most important to you?
Mentoring Is Not Always a Positive Experience On the second day of his job, Bob was introduced to his mentor and shown his office.
How might a succession planning system differ between high-potential employees and employees with midlevel managerial talent?
Discuss the characteristics of the most effective company development strategies. Which characteristic do you believe is most important? Why?
How might distance learning be designed and used to avoid some of the learning and transfer of training problems of the traditional lecture method?
Cisco Systems Account Managers Are Too Busy for Training Cisco Systems of San Jose, California, helps people make connections in business, education.
What are the potential benefits for the mentor and for the protégé? What is the best way to match mentors and protégés?
Your boss is interested in hiring a consultant to help identify potential managers from current employees of a fast-food restaurant.
Many employees are unwilling to relocate geographically because they like their current community and because spouses.
What acceptable methods can be used to show the costs and benefits of training without collecting statistics and conducting analyses?
Discuss the outcomes you would collect and the design you would use. How might your answer change if the managers had not yet attended the program?
How might you estimate the benefits of a training program designed to teach employees how to use the World Wide Web to monitor stock prices?
Discuss several factors that influence the choice of evaluation design. Which of these factors would have the greatest influence.
Discuss the steps of an action learning program. Which aspect of action learning do you think is most beneficial for learning?
What do threats to validity have to do with training evaluation? Identify internal and external threats to validity. Are internal and external threats similar?
You have a one-day classroom experience in which you need to help a group of engineers and software programmers learn to become project managers.
Consider three time periods (pretraining, during training, and after training) and three parties involved in transfer of training (manager, trainer, trainee).
Patagonia’s Culture Patagonia sells outdoors sports clothes and sporting equipment through specialty retailers, a catalog, and stores in North America.
A small group of U.S. plastics companies have enacted the Global Standards for Plastic Certification (GSPC) training program.
What conditions would suggest that a company should buy a training program from an outside vendor?