What is the difference between training and development?

Training-  activities directed toward the acquisition of knowledge, skills and sttitudes for which there is an immediate or near-term applicant.

Development- the acquisition of attributes or competencies for which there may be no immediate use

What are 4 basic analyses used for needs assessment ?

A. Organizational, Demographic, Task and KSAO, Person

B. People, Original, Developement, Action

C. KSAP, All People, Developement, Industry

D. Both A & D

A.

Organizational analysis: identification  organizational support for training and link to strategic workforce planning.

Demographic Analysis: Identification of special needs for a particular group.

Task and KSAO Analysis: Identification of the content of the training. Person Analysis: identification of who needs training and of what kind is needed.

What increases behavior and is better over long term?

Reinforcement

What decreases behavior and is only good if used for a temporary basis?

Punishment

What is overlearning?

 Make the job  “second nature”

– esp. activities that will be required under great stress

 • Increases retention, makes learning reflexive/automatic, andis effective for cognitive and physical tasks.

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These are 6 important findings regarding goal setting:

1. Effects strongest for easy tasks and weakest for complex tasks.

2. goal commitment is important  and is influenced through self-efficiency. 3. complex tasks: participation important for acceptance; easy task: assigned goals ok.

4. Past experience affects level of future goals.

5.If goal is accepted specific and difficult goals are best.

6 Good to provide info about how to work and why goal and task are important.

True

What are the 4 basic steps of behavior modeling?

A.  Modeling, role-playing, social reinforcement, transfer of training.

B. Training, Punishment, Reinforcement, Acting

C. There are only 2 Training and Punishment for not transfering

D. All of the above are steps of behavior modeling

A.  Modeling, role-playing, social reinforcement, transfer of training.

What is the most widely used training and development technique?

A. Role Playing

B. electronic training

None of the Above

C. On the job training

Reaction criteria ,Learning Criteria, Behavorial Criteria, Results Criteria are all levels of Kirkpatrick’s levels of criteria?

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True

Training Validity, Transfer validity, Intraorganizational validity, Interorganizational validity are the 4 different levels of training validity

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True

What is privacy?

 Interest that employees have in controlling the use that is made of their personal information and in being able to engage in behavior free from regulation or servallience.

What is Confidentiality when pertaining to work environment?

treatment of information provided with the expectation that it will not be disclosed to others.  

The Privacy Act of 1986- Prohibits ‘outside’ interception of email by a third party without proper authorization (inside interception okay though)

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True

What is the USA Patriot Act of 2001?

Grants broad powers to the government to track use of the internet and requires that employees report any immediate threats to the government

Who does more "whistle blowing"?

Any of the following:

 individuals at organizations seen as responsive to complaints, individuals holding professional positions, individuals with positive reactions to their work, individuals with long service, individuals recently recognized for good performance,, males, members of large work groups.

Individuals "whistle blow" Strictly for financial gain

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False

What are some individual differences predicting ethical behavior?

Level of moral development, cognitive ability, sex: women see more unethically than men, personal values, variability  should be expected in success of corporate ethics programs.

 Misrepresentation of results, censoring, plagiarism, authorship credit, data sharing are some ethical concerns when recruiting and selecting participants for organizational research

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True

Pre- training, valance of training, Job involvement, Organizational commitment and Career exploration are all determinantes of motivation in the workplace

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True

An organization is only obligated to protect participants from harm.

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False

Organizations must protect these following rights:

A. Right to Informed consent

B. Right to privacy

C. Right to Confidentiality and Right to debriefing

D. Right to protection from Deception

E. All of the above

E. All of the above

 What are some pointers for increasing transfer of training?

Maximize similarity between training and job– Make sure general principles are understood– Provide as much motivation as possible– Provide supervisory support for transfer of training– Reward transfer of training

What are the influencers of motivation to learn:

• Influencers of motivation to learn:– Pretraining self-efficacy– Valence of training– Job involvement– Organizational commitment– Career exploration– Personality (conscientiousness, goal orientation, anxiety)– Trainer expectations (Pygmalion effect)

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Ethics and morality are Behaviors about which society holds certain values

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True