We are excited to present the seventh edition of Employee Training and Development. This revised edition maintains a balance between research and real company practices with its lively writing style and most up-to-date developments. It provides readers with a solid background in the fundamentals of training and developments such as needs assessment, transfer of training, learning environment design, methods, evaluation Salient Features • New! In-text examples and chapter openers feature companies from all industries, including service, manufacturing, retail, and nonprofit organizations • New! Latest research findings and best company practices each chapter like flipped classroom, adaptive training, big data and workforce analytics, learning management systems, etc. • New! Cases given in the book provides issues related training and development faced by actual companies • Coverage on use of technologies for training delivery, such as online learning, social media, mobile learning, gamification, and virtual worlds • Pedagogically sound and current, with chapter openers, objectives, key terms, additional discussion questions, and assignments including web-based exercises |