15.5. Designing and Managing the HRD Function

The Three Levels approach to determining training needs, to designing training, and to evaluating training suggests a different kind of HRD department. As a matter of fact, this type of HRD function can transform itself from a training operation to the organization's performance department.

A performance department differs from a traditional training function in a number of ways. Its people:

  • Understand that their mission is to improve performance, not to provide skills and knowledge.

    Figure 15.4. Ace Copiers, Inc., Original Organization Chart.
  • Only conduct training and development that are linked ...

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