Week 5 - Discussion 2 - HR Dev & Change

Successful Trainings

The case study “The Competent Employee,” provided at the beginning of Chapter 10 of the course text, establishes the context for the need for diversity and sexual harassment training in an organization. Similar to a society, every organization has a built-in work environment and culture. To acclimatize their employees to this environment and to ensure that all employees are treated equally, organizations conduct various training programs, such as orientation training and sexual harassment training. In this Discussion, you will analyze whether training programs, such as diversity awareness and sexual harassment, can be successfully measured.

Based on your reading for this week: Discuss how organizations can measure the success of diversity awareness and sexual harassment training programs. Post by Day 3 a substantive response of approximately 200–250 words that answers the following questions:

· How can an organization determine if these trainings have been successful? Can the impact be measured? Why or why not?

· What behavior changes should be expected as a result of the training?

· Will reported claims of sexual harassment increase or decrease after the training? Why or why not?

Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the Learning Resources and any additional sources.

Below are three UNRELATED EXAMPLES of how to cite within a paragraph in APA format. You need to cite resources in your Discussion Post to support and justify your thinking:

Haag and Cummings (2003) base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and...

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time, and... (Haag & Cummings, 2003).

The authors base their information on their experience and concepts of IT at the time. They stated that “…IT is the most important aspect that needs attention by upper management” (Haag & Cummings, 2003, p. 89).

Now, draft your response of at least 200–250 words below:

After you have finished addressing all elements of the Discussion prompt, do not forget to include your references in APA format. You will need to write the references to any resources that you cite in your Discussion Response. Below are examples of references, including your course text. When complete, please copy and paste your response in the appropriate thread in the Discussion Forum.

References

Blanchard, P. N., & Thacker, J. W. (2013). Effective training: Systems, strategies, and practices (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice-Hall.

Below are UNRELATED REFERENCES from a journal, a newspaper, and website. These references are only intended to illustrate correct APA formatting:

Ismail, A., Mohamad, M. H., Mohamed, H. A.-B., Rafiuddin, N. M., & Zhen, K. W. P. (2010). Transformational and transactional leadership styles as a predictor of individual outcomes. Theoretical and Applied Economics, 17(6), 89–104.

Porter, E. (2014, May 13). The politics of income inequality. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/business/economy/the-politics-of-income-inequality.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A18%22%7D

Walmart. (n.d.). Our business. Retrieved from http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/our-business/

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