Changing culture through empowerment A summary
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Changing culture through empowerment
Paul Hyland, Terry Sloan, David Barnett, Journal of European Industrial Training.
Bradford: 1998. Vol 22, Iss. 9; pg.349
Summary
Increasingly, organizations are willing to bear the training costs, nevertheless learning, as a culture is equally important, as it is insufficient to solely provide training. The article by Hyland, Sloan and Barnett, stresses that training is ineffective if the culture to realize the benefits of training is absent. In addition, the trio has provided reports on how an organization uses active learning techniques that encompasses empowerment for its employees in order to fully appreciate the effectiveness of training programs. According to Bassi et al (1996), it has established that the continual change in the global arena and technology forces the nature and content of work to take multiple forms as evidenced in the current Australian government, who seeks to remove artificial barriers to trade. With the intense competition, the constant restructuring and downsizing have meant that are fewer people are doing the same amount of work as before. So much that people has become the most important form of resources as we are the only natural resource to posses the ability to adapt to the changes in the environment...