Week 3 - Assignment: Explain How Employee Investment Improves Retention and Morale

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Books and Resources for this Week

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Training, Learning, and Development

Aristotle said it best when he declared, “Excellence is an art won by training and habit.”

Today’s successful organizations expand upon excellence by ensuring not only training

and on-the-job learning is ongoing, but that they also adopt industry best practices to

help grow and retain a strong workforce. Some might respond to this sentiment by asking

what happens if you invest in training and your employees leave? You may think it would

be worse if you do not train your employees and they stay.

For purposes of this course, training is defined as a practice where the knowledge, skills,

and abilities of employees are increased to better manage the demands of their jobs.

Learning focuses on what employees are doing in their organizations and how they might

be able to do it better. While not directly linked to the type of learning you would imagine

in a training set, a learning organization is one where assessment processes are

recognizable. Finally, development is how skills are presented to employees in a manner

that helps improve future performance.

Something to consider as you read this week’s readings is how as the demand for training,

learning, and development grow, the responsibility for ensuring fulfillment of the three

diffuses to all parts of an organization.

Be sure to review this week's resources carefully. You are expected to apply the

information from these resources when you prepare your assignments.

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Arthur, D. (2004). Fundamentals of

human resources management (4th

ed.). Saranac Lake, NY: American

Management Association. Link

Colvard, J. E. (2008). Developing Future

Leaders. In R. S. Morse & T. F. Buss

(Eds.), Innovations in public leadership

development (pp. 49-59)... Link

Thunnissen, M., & Buttiens, D. (2017).

Talent management in public sector

organizations: A study on the impact of

contextual factors on the... Link

Creating Videos in Kaltura Link

Week 3 - Assignment: Explain How Employee

Investment Improves Retention and Morale Assignment

Due February 20 at 11:59 PM

This week, you will prepare a video presentation with a PowerPoint file. You will create

your video presentation by using a video capturing tool located in NCUOne. To access the

video capturing tool, follow the tutorial found in your Books and Resources for this Week.

You have read about employee development in the organizational setting. As part of your

training, you are required to give a PowerPoint presentation to departmental managers

throughout the organization, keeping the following thought in mind:

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Many companies don’t want to invest money in training because they believe it is lost

when those employees leave.

Explore the paradoxes in the above statement. Include in your presentation a brief

discussion on how training and development might impact employee motivation or even

morale as a whole. Use examples from the readings.

Incorporate appropriate animations, transitions, and graphics as well as speaker notes for

each slide. The speaker notes may be comprised of brief paragraphs or bulleted lists and

should cite material appropriately.

Support your presentation with at least five scholarly resources. In addition to these

specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources may be included.

Length: 12-15 slides (with a separate reference slide)

Notes Length: 200-350 words for each slide

Be sure to include citations for quotations and paraphrases with references in APA format

and style where appropriate. Save the file as PPT with the correct course code

information.

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