Category: Adult Learning
What Is Organization Development?
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Organization Development Defined Organization Development can be defined as recognizing, creating and implementing a solution to an organization’s weaknesses in performance through team effort. The desired result is a shared enthusiastic attitude toward accomplishing new and existing circumstances or events. What Contributes to an Organization’s Weakness in Performance? The organization’s […]
Beginning Spanish for the Native English Speaking Adult Learner
The Four Basic Sections of Human Resource Development
What Is Human Resource Development? Human Resource Development (HRD) is a practice that combines training, organization development, and career development efforts to encourage improvement of individual, group, and organizational performance. Its purpose is to enhance employee performance/productivity, which leads to employee and customer satisfaction and an increase in the profitability of the organization. HRD is […]
Why is Turnover a Serious Problem?
What does it take to retain people in an organization? What do you do to try to retain the best people? What are your processes for getting the best and the brightest? Who in the organization is primarily responsible for retaining employees? What are the important elements of retention? What are your concerns about retention […]
Synergistic Relationships
Planned organizational change is one way to focus the magnificent energy of an organization so it can be harnessed for the good of all persons involved. To harness all of this energy really requires a strong look at the relationships among the project’s key sponsors, targets, agents, and advocates. These relationships can be viewed as […]
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
Resistance to change is often reflective of energy devoted to closure attempts. That is people are attempting to finish what they feel to be incomplete in the historical structure of the organization. Providing some way for the organizational members to disengage from that history; to finish, at least to some extent, the past helps […]
Constructivism
By Shirley J. Caruso, M.A., Human Resource Development Constructivism is a branch of cognitive psychology that has greatly impacted the thinking of instructional designers (Dick, Carey & Carey, 2005). The fundamental point of constructivism is that the learner as an individual combines existing knowledge and experiences with new learning. Constructivism lies within rationalism, which holds […]
The Transformative Change Model
The Transformative Change Model Change management is a required capability for developing change competency. To build change competency, you must equip all levels of your organization with the understanding, perspectives and tools to make change seamless and effortless. Managing change means managing the conversation between the people leading the change and those who are […]