HRM week-6

Training is a planned effort by a company to facilitate the learning of job-related competencies, knowledge, skills, and behaviors by employees.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Learning and development specialists at the FLX Corporation were designing a new training program on business analytics. They reached the point where they had selected the training methods for the program. The next step in the training design process is to ensure the transfer of training.

• TRUE

• FALSE

To enhance the opportunity for trainees to perform, companies should address the work environment and trainee motivation.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A disadvantage of distance learning is the high travel costs incurred during training.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Michaela Harris, a software engineering student at a top engineering school, is excited that she received a summer apprenticeship at a business software development firm. She believes this means she will have a guaranteed job with the firm after the summer.

• TRUE

• FALSE

E-learning is likely to replace the blended learning approach when face-to-face interaction is required.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The Golden Gate Corporation, a multinational consumer products company, implemented a process to prepare its American expatriates working in China and India to return to their corporate jobs at the headquarters in Atlanta. This is an example of inpatriation.

• TRUE

• FALSE

________ requires employees to understand the entire work system.

• Continuous learning

• Formal training

• Transfer of training

• Implicit learning

• On-the-job knowledge

Renee Robinson, the senior vice president of marketing, documents her processes and can articulate easily what she does to others on her team so that the work will continue while she is on vacation. She is using ________ in this situation.

• tacit knowledge

• formal training

• explicit knowledge

• implicit learning

• on-the-job knowledge

Which of the following is true of informal learning?

• It is initiated by the management of an organization.

• It involves training and development programs.

• It occurs in a planned setting for facilitating knowledge.

• It occurs as a result of gathering explicit knowledge.

• It is motivated by a personal intent to develop.