Learning and Development

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
• Tutor: Rebecca Whiting

This module explores the meaning of training and development. You will assess its contribution to the achievement of corporate objectives, examine the relevance of training and development techniques to organisational needs, and critically review the relationship between training and development theory and practice.

Indicative module content

• Training needs analysis
• Training design and transfer
• Evaluation and the working context
• Contemporary issues, covering ethics
• Practice versus theory
• E-learning
• The changing work profile
• Resource-based strategies, from training to learning
• The transfer of knowledge into practice
• The ways in which training can be evaluated

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• understand the influence of organisational strategy on the role and practice of training and development
• consider the role of training models and their use as a tool for informing human resource development
• identify training needs and understand what is involved in training needs analysis
• select training methods and consider their influence on trainee development and training transfer
• critically review the techniques available for the evaluation of training and consider their role in practice
• understand the strategic context for training and development and its role as a resource-based strategy.