True / False Questions
1. Training refers to any planned effort by a firm to facilitate the learning of job-related knowledge, skills, or behavior by employees.
2. Training is moving from a primary focus on teaching employees specific skills to a broader focus of creating and sharing knowledge, an intellectual capital view.
3. Continuous learning requires employees to understand the entire work system, including the relationships among their jobs, their work units, and the company.
4. The last step in the instructional design process involves choosing a training method.
5. The first step of the instructional design process, needs assessment, refers to the process used to determine if training is necessary.
6. Person analysis and task analysis are often conducted at the same time.
7. Person analysis helps the manager identify whether training is appropriate and which employees need training.
8. Communities of practice are members of the surrounding community who work together, learn from each other, and give the company ideas on how to operate.
9. One way to think about the work environment's influence on transfer of training is to consider the overall climate for transfer.
10. Opportunity to perform is influenced only by the work environment.
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