FutureWork: The Revolution Reshaping American Business

by Edward E. Gordon, Judith Ponticell

Overview

The authors offer proven skills, training, and educational applications that develop individual employee thinking for total quality management, ISO 9000, or other quality-team business programs. It develops the great potential of using cognitive-based learning to empower people for quality and workplace leadership, systems that move beyond traditional behavior-based training techniques. The authors explain what can and cannot be done to increase creative thinking, insight, and adult intelligence. They provide bottom-line measures for assessing the effectiveness of training procedures and show how a commitment to substantive life-long employee education can build a stronger business and corporate presence in the marketplace of the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275948481
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/20/1994
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

EDWARD E. GORDON is President of Imperial Corporate Training and Development and teaches at Loyola University in Chicago.

RONALD R. MORGAN is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Loyola University.

JUDITH A. PONTICELL is Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University.

They co-authored Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business (Quorum Books, 1991).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
The Evolution of Management Development
Cognition and Learning: The Potential of Melding Theory into Practice
Back to Basics: Enhancing Learning in Training and Development
The Individualized Instructional Program (IIP) Training Alternative
Behavior Based Instruction's Missing Pieces of the Training Puzzle
Management Insight Development Program (MIDP): A Cognitive Thinking Approach for Workplace Problem Solving and Creativity
Defining Intelligence for the Training Arena
Proving It Works!
Designing Effective Cognitive Based Training and Development
FutureWork: The Revolution Reshaping American Business
Appendix I: A Description of the IIP Research Program
Appendix II: IIP Quantitative Research
Appendix III: Use of Curriculum-Based Measures in the MIDP
Appendix IV: Survey of Training Needs Assessment for Business
Appendix V: FutureWork Case Study