Essays on Workplace Learning

- Situation Analysis Cardexx had recently experienced several changes because the new CEO was appointed. Leadership style had changed. There were changes in technology and operations observed as well. The new opportunities emerged as a result of focus on innovations and availability of higher quality data.

After careful analysis of the situation that occurred at Cardexx, the following challenges were identified:

• operating in a highly competitive environment; • problems with security; • poor leadership; • absence of coherence in the teams. Cardexx faced tough competition from the side of Visa and MasterCard. Cash is also seen as a substitute product to the payment cards. Thus, a new operational process is needed to offer either new or ...

Introduction

The 70:20:10 model was developed in the mid 1990s through a research by Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger. The model is based on the argument that development is based on the identification of a need and the motivation to act to meet that need. The model is also based on the assumption that a combination of different learning approaches can provide a powerful learning experience. The model states that development will be 70% from on the job experiences, learning and problem solving, 20% from feedback and from working based on learning from examples of the need and 10% from formal learning. The theory ...

1. (PC 1.1) Why should organisations spend valuable time and resources to support workplace learning opportunities? The heart of an organization is in its people. Even the most advanced machinery and technology cannot bring a company to reach its goals and objectives without the human machinery behind it. Smart business leaders know where to invest their resources. Money spent to develop the employees in a way that makes learning opportunities emerge is money that is spent well. In the same light, Griffith (2009, p.12) claims that time, which is a most valued resource in any organization, is wisely invested in the ...

(PC 1.5) Discuss the role of the training consultants and specialists in a workplace learning environment.

Although it is common to underestimate the role of training consultants and specialist in a workplace learning environment, in reality it can be quite significant. Their main activities involve the design of customized training plans for the staff as well as the audits of employee skills. The effect of external experts on the in-company development primarily relates to the skills and expertise that these specialists and consultants have developed over time. (Precision Group, 2012, p.7). Most companies are not able to accumulate such knowledge due ...

1. (PC 1.1) Why should organisations spend valuable time and resources to support workplace learning opportunities? The heart of an organization is in its people. Even the most advanced machinery and technology cannot bring a company to reach its goals and objectives without the human machinery behind it. Smart business leaders know where to invest their resources. Money spent to develop the employees in a way that makes learning opportunities emerge is money that is spent well. In the same light, Griffith (2009, p.12) claims that time, which is a most valued resource in any organization, is wisely invested in the ...

The ever changing environment of doing work has placed quite a number of new demands on the workforce in various organizations and thus so as to keep pace with competition between both local and international organizations, managers have seen it necessary to adopt work-related training for their employees. This is important in ensuring the workers obtain the skills for the successful fulfillment of their duties. Workplace learning has thus been seen as not only essential in the realization of short term objectives but also in the achievement of long term strategies. It refers to the burgeoning inter-disciplinary field which consists ...