Ashford University - BUS 680 Training and Development - week 5 DBs plus assignment

Week Five Overview

Readings

1. Read the following chapters in Effective Training:
   • Chapter Ten: Key Areas of Organizational Training
   • Chapter Eleven: Employee and Management Development

Discussions

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1. Resistance to Training

   The vice-president of human resources asked you, the director of training, to develop a sexual harassment training program for the company. During your needs analysis you discover that most of the executives do not believe they need this training and do not plan to attend. You identify a couple of instances in which an executive’s behavior seems bordering on sexual harassment. You discuss your findings with the VP, who asks you to come back with a strategy for dealing with the resistance to training. Develop your response and present it in your discussion forum. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

2. KSAs

   Find a recent article (no more than a year old) that identifies KSAs that will be critical for managers in the immediate future. Provide a summary of the article and discuss its management development implications in your discussion forum. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

Assignments

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IMP Case Analysis

Read the Case Analysis: All it Takes is for Good Men to do Nothing at the end of chapter 10, on pages 421-422 (print text) and answer the case questions on page 422.