Industrial-Organizational Psychology Learning Module

Training in Organizations
Prepared by the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology - SIOP 2002

Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this module, you should:
Be able to 100% accurately describe the basic timeline of a training program Be able to provide at least two e amples of ways that training allows the use of psychological ideas from other areas Be able to critically evaluate and accurately list at least three ways to !now if a training program was successful

A Chronological Approach
"retraining environment #eeds assessment $raining %esign $raining &mplementation $raining $ransfer and 'utcomes $raining (valuation

Pretraining Environ ent

&ndividual %ifferences
)hat do learners bring to the training environment*

(nvironmental +upport
&s training valued*

,raming of the $raining

&s it basic or advanced*

!eeds Assess ent

-ey .uestion: )hat does the training need to accomplish///
///in terms of the organi0ation1s goals* ///in terms of specific tas!s* 2in terms of the people involved*

+hould result in learning ob3ectives li!e the ones for this lesson4

Training "esign
'n5site
'n5the53ob training 6estibule training 7ob rotation Apprenticeship %6%58'9

'ff5site
:ectures Audio5visual ;onferences ;omputer5assisted instruction +imulation<role5 playing

An Integrative Opportunity
(ducational psychology
=oal orientation +ocial interaction

;ognitive psychology
&nformation processing "roblem solving %ecision ma!ing

Training Trans#er
%oes material from training actually get >+(%*
&nitiation 9aintenance =enerali0ation

'utcomes2
-nowledge, s!ills, attitudes, etc/

Training Evaluation
-ir!patric!1s standards for success
8eactions :earning Behavior 8esults

'verall ?training effectiveness@

$uture "irections
&ncreased automation %iversity of the wor!force ;ontinuous learning Adaptation and fle ibility $raining as a mar!et all its own

$or "iscussion%%%
%ivide into small groups, and discuss the following2 There are a lot of things that go into being a college professor. Youve had some good ones, and some bad ones, Im sure. How would you go about designing a training program to develop someone into a good college