Corporate Training for Effective Performance

Corporate training and effective performance have become major issues in the 1980s and '90s. Reviews of the training research literature show that, parallel to the growing attention to corporate training, research has also increased in the field, giving a

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Evaluation in Education and Human Services

Editors: George F. Madaus, Boston College, Chestnut HilI, Massachusetts, V.S.A. Daniel L. Stufflebearn, Western Michigan Vniversity, Kalarnazoo, Michigan, V.S.A.

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Policy Perspectives on Educational Testing

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The Fractured Marketp/oce for Standardized Testing

Wing, L.C. and Gifford, B.:

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Teacher Evaluation: Guide to Effective Practice

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Alternatives in Assessment of Achievements, Learning Processes and Prior Knowledge

Corporate Training for EfTective Performance

Martin Mulder University of Twente, the NetherIands

Wim J. Nijhof University of Twente, the NetherIands Robert O. Brinkerhoff

Western Michigan University, KaIamazoo, MI, U.S.A.

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corporate training for effective performance / Martin Mulder, Wim J. Nijhof, Robert O. Brinkerhoff, eds. p. cm. Includes indexes. ISBN 978-94-010-4292-5 ISBN 978-94-011-0667-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0667-2 1. Employees--Training of. 2. Competency based education. 1. Mulder, Martin, 1951- . II. Nijhof, Wim J., 1941III. Brinkerhoff, Robert O. HF5549.5.T7C63 1995 658.3'124--dc20 95-4791 CIP Copyright c 1995 by Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1995 Softcover reprint of the hardcover lst edition 1995 Ali rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Printed an

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Contents

List of Figures

ix

List of Tables

xi

List of Contributors

xiii

Preface

xvii

Linking Corporate Training and Effective Performance

Martin Mulder, Wim J. Nijhof and Robert O. Brinkerhoff

Part I Changing Environments of Training and Development Introduction to Part I

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Wim J. Nijhof 2

The Development of Competence: National St