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Handbook of human performance technology : principles, practices, and potential
Title
Handbook of human performance technology : principles, practices, and potential / James A. Pershing, editor ; foreword by Harold D. Stolovitch and Erica J. Keeps.
ISBN
0787984450
9780787984458
0787965308
9780787965303
Edition
3rd ed.
Published
San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, ©2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xliv, 1364 pages) : illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Summary
The first two editions of this book helped define the rapidly growing and vibrant field of human performance technology, a systematic approach to improving individual and organizational performance. This newly revised sourcebook updates key foundational chapters on organizational change, evaluation, instructional design, and motivation, and also features chapters on "performance technology in action" and addresses many new topics in the field, such as certification, Six Sigma, and communities of practice.
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Other formats
Print version: Handbook of human performance technology. 3rd ed. San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer, ©2006
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 09, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Foreword to the third edition / Harold D. Stolovitch, Erica J. Keeps
Preface
Acknowledgments
The editor and editorial advisory board
Foreword to the First Edition / Thomas F. Gilbert
Foreword to the Second Edition / Robert F. Mager
Part 1. Foundations of human performance technology. 1. Human performance technology fundamentals / James A. Pershing
2. The performance architect's essential guide to the performance technology landscape / Roger M. Addison, Carol Haig
3. Business perspectives for performance technologists / Kenneth H. Silber, Lynn Kearny
4. Performance improvement : enabling commitment to changing performance requirements / William R. Daniels, Timm J. Esque
5. Systemic issues / Dale M. Brethower
6. Mega planning and thinking : defining and achieving measurable success / Roger Kaufman
7. The origins and evolution of human performance technology / Camille Ferond
Part 2. The performance technology process. 8. Aligning human performance technology decisions with an organization's strategic direction / Ryan Watkins
9. Analysis and more / Allison Rossett
10. Requirements : the bridge between analysis and design / Ray Svenson
11. Modeling mastery performance and systematically deriving the enablers for performance improvement / Guy W. Wallace
12. Dimensions of organizational change / Larissa V. Malopinsky, Gihan Osman
13. Using evaluation to measure and improve the effectiveness of human performance technology initiatives / Robert O. Brinkerhoff
14. The Full scoop on full-scope evaluation / Joan C. Dessinger, James L. Moseley
Part 3. Interventions at the worker and work team levels.
15. Instruction as an intervention / Michael Molenda, James D. Russell
16. Designing instructional strategies : a cognitive perspective / Kenneth H. Silber, Wellesley R. Foshay
17. Games and simulations for training : from group activities to virtual reality / Robert L. Appelman, John H. Wilson
18. Distance training / José Manuel Ochoa-Alcántar, Christy M. Borders, Barbara A. Bichelmeyer
19. Innovations in performance improvement with mentoring / Margo Murray
20. Motivating individuals, teams, and organizations / Richard E. Clark
21. Shifting organizational alignment from behavior to values / Anthony W. Marker
22. Principles and practices of work-group performance / Michael F. Cassidy, Megan M. Cassidy
23. Performance Support Systems / Steven W. Villachica, Deborah L. Stone, John Endicott
Part 4. Interventions at the workplace and organizational levels. 24. The impact of organizational development / Brian Desautels
25. The fifth discipline : a systems learning model for building high-performing learning organizations / M. Jeanne Girard, Joseph Lapides, Charles M. Roe
26. Knowledge Management, organizational performance, and human performance technology / Debra Haney
27. Coming to terms with communities of practice : a definition and operational criteria / Sasha Barab, Scott J. Warren, Rodrigo del Valle, Fang Fang
28. Workplace design / Karen L. Medsker
29. Six Sigma : increasing human performance technology value and results / Darlene M. Van Tiem, Joan C. Dessinger, James L. Moseley
30. Normal excellence : lean human performance technology and the Toyota production system / Joachim Knuf, Mark J. Lauer
Part 5. Performance measurement and assessment. 31. A commentary on quantitative and qualitative methods : myths and realities / Jana L. Pershing
32. Constructing effective questionnaires / Sung Heum Lee
33. Interviewing to analyze and evaluate human performance technology / Jana L. Pershing
34. Observation methods for human performance technology / James A. Pershing, Scott J. Warren, Daniel T. Rowe
35. Using content analysis in human performance technology / Erika R. Gilmore
36. Quantitative data analyses / Mary Norris Thomas
37. Evidence-based practice and professionalization of human performance technology / Ruth Colvin Clark
Part 6. Performance technology in action. 38. Making the transition from a learning to a performance function / Dana Gaines Robinson, James C. Robinson
39. Using an HPT model to become management's partner / Danny Langdon
40. Managing human performance technology projects / Nicholas Andreadis
41. Leadership in performance consulting / Roger Chevalier
42. The anatomy of performance : a framework for consultants / Geary A. Rummler
43. Certification : an alignment intervention / Judith A. Hale
44. Standards and ethics in human performance technology / Ingrid J. Guerra
45. Professional ethics. a matter of duty / Jim Hill
46. Improving human performance by employing a top-down function analysis methodology in Navy aircraft design / Dennis Duke, Robert Guptill, Mark Hemenway, Wilbur Doddridge
Part 7. Looking forward in human performance technology. 47. SWOT analysis / Doug Leigh
48. Sustainable development and human performance technology / Scott P. Schaffer, Therese M. Schmidt
49. Rapid reflection throughout the performance-improvement process / Sharon J. Korth, Brenda S. Levya-Gardner
50. Appreciative inquiry. unraveling the mystery of accentuating the positive / Darlene M. Van Tiem, Julie Lewis
51. Comprehensive performance evaluation. : using logic models to develop a theory-based approach for evaluation of human performance technology interventions / Barbara A. Bichelmeyer, Brian S. Horvitz
52. Aligning the human performance system / John Amarant, Donald T. Tosti
53. Systems, measures, and workers : producing and obscuring the system and making systemic performance improvement difficult / Donald J. Winiecki
54. Hidden order of human performance technology : chaos and complexity / Darlene M. Van Tiem, Swati Karve, Jennifer Rosenzweig
55. Quantulumcunque concerning the future development of performance technology / Klaus D. Wittkuhn
About the editor
About the contributors
The International Society for Performance Improvement
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Subject index.
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