Business Education & Study, Employees - Compensation, Flexible Scheduling & Benefits, Employees - Training
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Overview
The Knowledge-Enabled Organization outlines Tobin's exciting new approach to learning, one that links "training and development" with viable, job-related, bottom-line driven activities. His practical and comprehensive model operates on individual, work unit, and corporate levels, with each area continually sharing information and skills. And it's filled with hundreds of instructive real-world examples from a wide variety of industries, including Buckman Laboratories of Memphis, which has built an outstanding knowledge network, and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which has done pioneering work on "individual learning contracts."Editorials
Library Journal
Are companies getting real value from their training dollars? According to Tobin (Transformational Learning, Wiley, 1995), most companies are not. He presents a convincing argument for effective investment in training and demonstrates where traditional training methods have failed. He offers case studies from some of the most advanced and profitable companies and shows how firms can spend their training dollars wisely and develop a formidable knowledge base to support company goals. The author's model for a knowledge-enabled organization provides a structure for information sharing and individual employee responsibility through a personal "learning contract." In addition, it addresses the potential for training and information sharing that advancing Internet and intranet technologies have started to create and how to use them to support staff development. Tobin's work is well researched; recommended for public libraries supporting a strong business community and academic libraries.Robert L. Balliot Jr., East Greenwich Free Lib., R.I.Library Journal
Tobin does a good job of applying the concepts of knowledge management and intellectual capital to employee training and development practices. A chapter on building a "knowledge network" to support employee learning is particularly valuable. For libraries supporting human resource professionals. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.Booknews
The author critiques the current state of employee training and outlines a new approach to employee learning linking training and development to job-related, bottom-line driven activities. Shows how to transform training departments, create a knowledge network, and maintain a positive learning environment, with real examples from a variety of industries. For managers and executives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 30, 1997
Publisher
Amacom
Pages
214
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780814403662