Studying Your Workforce or Democracy and Development

Studying Your Workforce: Applied Research Methods and Tools for the Training and Development Practitioner

Author: Alan B Clardy

Studying Your Workforce concisely and easily describes how to apply specific research methods to common human resource development problems. It outlines the basic principles of research and ties those principles to human resource development functions. Some of the topics examined include performance problem analysis, performance solutions, and assessing solution adequacy. Background sections on the theoretical and research aspects of the methods are included, along with examples drawn from the field showing the approach used in practice. The book concludes with a discussion of special issues including legal and ethical concerns, reporting results, sample size and statistical analysis issues, and confidentiality and privacy.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Using Research for Training and Development	1
2	Data Collection: Planning, Tests, and Observation	18
3	Data Collection: Surveys, Interviews, Analyzing the Data, and Reporting Results	34
4	Front-End Assessment: Identifying Performance Problems and Training Needs	50
5	Front-End Assessment: Training Programming From Needs Assessment	68
6	Developing HRD Solutions	86
7	Assessing the Adequacy of HRD Solutions	105
	References	127
	Index	137
	About the Author	141

Interesting textbook: Incorporating Women or Realising Strategy in Management

Democracy and Development: Theory and Practice

Author: Adrian Leftwich

This book calls into question the current western orthodoxy about the relationship of democracy and development, exploring the theoretical issues involved in the relationship and examining a number of case sudies.