...ricerca in “Scienza Tecnologia e Società” cofinanziato dal FSE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR THE LEARNING FACTORY by Harry Barton and Rick Delbridge Cardiff Business School University of Wales, United Kingdom BartonH@Cardiff.ac.uk Paper prepared for International Workshop Lean Production and Labour Force in the Car Industry: The Forms of Implementation of an Epoch-Making Model March 25-27, 2000 University of Calabria – Rende (Italy) 20 Introduction It is conventional wisdom that the factories of the future will be sites of continuous improvement, innovation and knowledge creation (Leonard Barton, 1992; Cooke and Morgan, 1998), with the focus being on the development of a set of strategies and organisational forms based on high skills, organisational flexibility and trust, often termed “high-performance work practices.” (OECD,1998). This view has been formulated followingresearch into developments in large manufacturing organizations within the world’s motor industry (Womack et al, 1990; MacDuffie, 1995) and in particular, Japanese manufacturers (Fruin, 1992; Kenney and Florida, 1993), where human resources (HR) and work practices are often considered central to the success of the Japanese automotive producers (Pil and MacDuffie, 1999). Such views raise fundamental questions regarding the role of labour in such manufacturing systems and, as a direct consequence, there has been increasing interest in the Human Resource Management of these organisations (Arthur, 1992;...
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...Within Escape to the Wild the new human resource management function could assist with: Formulating and implementing new policies and procedures Uniform training of employees Administration of financial matters A recruitment and selection program A policies and procedures human resource department would allow Escape to the Wild to: • Formulate appropriate policies that ensure health & safety regulations are adhered to as well as following legal requirements for employees. • Formulation of working procedures alongside managers and line managers. • Free line managers, the existing finance manager and senior managers from the human resource tasks they are currently spending valuable time on, some of which they are ill equipped to handle. The activities that Escape to the Wild would need to undertake would be as follows: • Formulate and agree upon policies and procedures that would be beneficial for the running of Escape to the Wild. • Ensure policies and procedures are both in line with legal obligations as an employer as well as adhering to health & safety regulations, upholding employee rights and disciplinary action is fair and concise. A formal recruitment and selection program would allow Escape to the Wild to: • Provide a fair systematic approach to selection of applicants and a more overall view of those who apply taking experience and qualifications into account. • Having the new human resource function handle this process would mean line managers would...
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...Philosophy of Learning My belief in learning is that humans learn from society and they learn to live in the society. I think the true purpose of education is to get along with others and live among those. To achieve purpose of education, people need to be sent off to society. Lecture should not be just making you to memorize thing, it has to motivate you to learn. I believe that whoever is doing is learning. I believe learning is social and should happen in community through investigations, experiments, questions, and conversations. I believe all of our historical philosophers have gathered their wisdoms from social communities experiencing it. Confucius said “At fifteen, I set my heart on learning. At thirty, I know where I stand, where my character has been formed. At forty, I have no more doubts, at fifty, I know the will of Heaven, at sixty my moral sense is well-developed, at seventy, I follow my heart’s desire without crossing the line.” It took thirty years for Confucius, one of most revered philosopher in the world, to stand with his own philosophy. How long would it take for me? I would like to begin with ‘What is the meaning of learning?’ Learning needs someone who is willing to learn. Every process of learning aims to change the learner. I say there are changes in different subjects, such as, knowledge, skill, attitudes, and other things. These changes are triggered by learner by himself. Which means learner by his will, provoke and lead process of learning. At same...
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...MSc Human Resource Management Modules : Training and Development “ Informal Learning becomes Formal in Workplace ” Learning in human life Essentially, human life is all about learning. Learning is a natural process and people continue learning throughout life, whether encouraged or not, whether formally taught or not, whether the outcomes are valued or not (Beardwell & Claydon, 2007). Learning is a process within the organisms which results in the ability to show changed performance that can be associated to experience rather than maturation (Ribeaux and Poppleton,1978 cited in Beardwell & Claydon, 2007). According to Wortman, Loftus, & Weaver (1999) learning refers to a relatively permanent change in observable behaviour potential that result from experience with the environment. Learning does not occur naturally, it involves active ‘mastery’ which is a process of internalisation, an operation which is initially represented an external activity begins to occur internally (Millar, 1995 cited in Rainbird, 2000). Formal and Informal Learning Learning processes can be achieved through a variety of ways, including formal and informal learning. Nowadays, the debates about formal and informal learning are still developed. Then, what formal learning and informal learning are? Formal learning is defined as learning that in general institutionally sponsored, classroom-based, and highly structured (Marsick & Watkins, 2001)...
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...Memory Project: Application to Learning and Study Habits Learning to tie shoes and ride a bike requires the encoding, storing, and retrieving of past observations of the procedure. With a lot of practice, children master these skills so well that they are able to remember them the rest of their lives. We use our memory about the past to help us understand the present. The study or memory in psychology is used in different ways, as well as there are many different ways to study how memory works in humans. In psychology there are many tasks used to measure memory and different types of memory storages that human's use, such as sensory storing, or short term storing. There are also a lot of techniques that humans use to improve their memory, which they can use to learn, such as mnemonic devices. All these things can be classified as important issues in the study of human memory and ways of learning. Storing information is essential in Learning. To store information that can be used for later use, such as tying ones shoelace, is very important for humans. Information being stored can be stored in three different memory capacities we have: sensory memory, short-term memory, or long-term memory. In sensory memory, the human holds sensory information for a brief period after the physical stimulus is no longer available. An example of this may be looking at flash cards to study. Someone looks at different flash cards for a short period of time, and so, the image of the flash...
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... 3 Issues Explosions Gaps 3-ISSUES : WAR AND PEACE MAN AND ENVIRONMENT CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY 3-EXPLOSIONS POPULATION KNOWLEDGE EXPECTATIONS 3-GAPS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BETWEEN LOVE AND POWER (Power—the single-minded desire to achieve one’s solitary purpose, Love—the drive towards unity) Jaques Delors While presenting his report titled “LEARNING: THE TREASURE WITHIN” to UNESCO in 1996 in which he puts emphasis on the need of VALUE EDUCATION Functional Learning ----------------- Teaching as training Learning-------- Deep Personal Meaning ----------------Teaching as Educating FOUR PILLARS AS RECOMMENDED BY UNESCO 1. LEARNING TO KNOW Learning to know implies learning how to learn by developing one's concentration, memory skills and ability to think. Every individual has hidden talents such as 1. Memory 2. Reasoning 3. Imagination 4....
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...Cards, Pictures, Pentel Pen, Stick and Chalk III. Procedure: a) Routinary Matter 1. Prayer 2. Ice Breakers 3. Attendance 4. Review (A simple recall of the previously learned material) b) Motivation The teacher will ask some of the pupils of what he/she have learned in the previous lesson, then, motivates the students of the newly acquired learnings. So as to, relate the previous topic to the new lesson. c) Presentation of the New Lesson After reviewing and allowing the pupils to go through with the newly acquired learnings, the teacher will now present to his/her pupils the new lesson to be discussed with. (Part of the Body and the Sense Organs). d) Application The teacher will let his/her pupils to see the whole picture of the Human Body. The teacher will likewise, introduce the different parts of the Human Body. The teacher then will explain to his/her pupils the functions of each of the parts of the Human Body most especially to the different Sense Organs. After allowing the pupils to be familiar with the different parts of the Human Body and the Sense Organs and that they already know each of its function. Now, therefore, the teacher must call pupils attention and that the teacher will asked his/her students some certain questions regarding the...
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...Class, Learning theories assert that development results from an accumulation of experience. There are 3 main psychologists associated with this theory. There is Ivan Pavlov, who believed that learning results from the association of stimuli called classical conditioning. Also, B.F Skinner, who coined the term operant conditioning, which involves learning to repeat or stop behaviors because of the consequences it may cause. Lastly, Albert Bandura, who thought that a person could learn from observing someone else perform an action and experience reinforcement or punishment. This is called observant learning or modeling (Boyd & Bee, 2015,p. 32). Each one of these psychologists’ theories has strengths and weaknesses. A strength in Pavlov’s...
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...Learning perspectives Perspective refers to the choice made based on a situation, from which one can measure experience and form a logical belief. Basically, it means a specific point of view in comprehending things. There are diverse theoretical opinions on learning which are related to different learning perspectives. Perspectives can be distinguished socially according to dialectical, socio-cultural and hermeneutic theories. The dialectical perspective maintains that individual learning occurs as a process of changing participation in groups (Stahl, 1998). It explains that learners keenly process data and learning occurs through their own efforts. Here, new views are linked to old ones and relationships between different views are found. According to the Gestalt theories, the key fundamentals of learning are intuition, perception and meaning and the learner was seen as a perceptual individual (Cooper). Dialectical theories are quite different but they are all united by the fact that the learner’s internal mental processes are continually progressing. The socio-cultural view emphasizes that for one to understand learning, they should focus on the social practices that make up ethos since learning is culturally shared (Stahl, 1998). This perspective largely focuses on human interaction. It suggests that learning occurs though analytical and social interactions with other people and through them the principles and norms of societies are learnt. This perspective...
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...people in the military, incarcerated re-entry students, people in work-force training, and people that are enrolled in traditional classes. His purpose is to connect the largest number of people possible to the success of the Rio Salado online program so that they can identify with, and support his argument that online learning is making education better for everyone. But is Bustamante’s opinion biased? By using “our” to refer to himself in relationship to the school, it...
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...Associationistic Theory of Learning Bevon Barker PSY 331 Instructor : Megan Mclaughlin 8-1-11 In life we are prone to experiencing different experiences; some through emotions, love and other inferences. We associate different experiences and try to form a plethora of comforts; a sense in which we can revisit to help us to assess new experiences throughout our lives. In other words, we learn from our mistakes, trials and tribulations. From a personal standpoint, I can honestly say that the association is probably the easiest way to make a decision when a new situation approaches. Realistically, association is not always the best answer however as humans, it is natural. In our readings, I find that the Associationistic Theory is the most interesting and appealing to me. The Associationistic Theory in Philosophy refers to the idea that mental processes operate by the association of one state with its successor states. (Warren 1921) The theory was developed by Plato and Aristotle, and further developed by pioneers like John Locke, David Hume, and James Mill. In the evolution of development, Locke, Hume, Mill developed elaborate principles and its relation to neurophysiology. Their contributions have led to Psychologists tactics in describing and assessing behavior when conducting sessions. The easiest way for one to relate to a theory is applying it and associating it through one’s own experience identifying with the elements that consist of that theory. Through...
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...Jack A. Adams’ A Closed-Loop Theory Of Motor Learning attempts to explain the process of how motor learning is achieved in humans. He argues that a sufficient motor learning theory should cover how verbal and motor processes work together to produce learning and also how errors are detected and corrected. In this paper it will be shown that Adams fails to do this as there are numerous flaws incorporated into his argument. Adams tends to overlook necessary details and his theory fails to explain how motor learning is achieved in individuals who do not possess a “verbal capability”. The central components to Adams theory are the concepts of knowledge of results or KR, the perceptual trace, and the memory trace. In order to understand the flaws of Adams theory, a brief explanation of each is fundamental. According to Adams (1971,p. 122), KR is information about a movement’s error that is used to solve a problem. KR is the verbal component of Adams theory, which according to him, is key for motor learning to occur. Next, is his idea of the perceptual trace. According to Adams (1971, pg. 123) in order to move a limb, a reference of past movement is necessary (i.e. the perceptual trace), KR, and sensory feedback. The perceptual trace is almost the “memory” of past movement. It is weak in the beginning of a new movement, and strengthened as the number of correct trials increases. Adams asserts that KR is vital to forming a strong perceptual trace since KR gives information on...
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...VARK Learning Style Analysis Learning is a never ending process. Each individual learns throughout his/her life. There is always something new to learn on each step of life. There is always something new to learn on each step of life. From birth to death everyone has to deal with something new. Aging plays an important role in learning as children. Young adults learn faster than elderly adults. Every person has a different potential of learning or different ways to adopt learning strategies. VARK is a tool to assess individual’s learning style. The VARK (Visual, Aural, Reading and Kinesthetic) questionnaire consists of sixteen questions and has used all senses of learning. One’s preferred method of learning could be different than the learning style. It is surprising how learning styles come up different than preference after completing the questionnaire. Some people who have failed in their educational field or work can get benefits after they know their style of learning. A person can succeed after knowing their style of learning. Most people do not know their learning style preference. Everyone has a mix of styles and techniques. Someone can find that they have one strong style of learning but they may prefer to learn in a different style. Once someone recognizes...
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...Approaches to learning In this process the students are asked to consider how they learn best, how they know and how do they communicate their understanding. Students are given tools to help them become actively involved in their learning. In addition approach to learning consists of the following (the responsibility of the teacher to assist with this): • Organizational skills and attitudes towards work • Collaborative skills • Communication • Information literacy • Reflection • Problem-solving and thinking skills • Subject-specific and interdisciplinary conceptual understanding. Community and service In this process students are asked to consider how they live in relation to others, how they contribute to the community, and how can I help others? This would require that students take part in the community they are apart of. The concentration is on building community awareness and the tools needed to create a more effective society. Human Ingenuity In this process students are asked to consider why and how do we create along with the consequences. Students are forced to reflect on their brunt on society. Students focus on the evolution, process and products of human creativity and their brunt on life and society. Opportunities are provided for students to increase in themselves the human ability to create, transform, enjoy, and improve the quality of life. Students assess the way individuals can began change for the good or bad along...
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... Farah Ali Elbalula Abd Elqadir Target Job Title: English Teacher, Translator, HR Coordinator Target Job Location: UAE; Saudi Arabia; Qatar; Kuwait, Oman Career Objective: Highly motivated teacher and seeking new challenges in which effectively utilizes my professional Experience. Looking to join a progressive organization School that has the need for a proactive person to develop the communicating standards, achievements and area of growth to students ;-Defining learning expectations and providing timely evaluative feedback on students performance ;Motivating and engaging students in meaning learning and growth ; - Implementing a variety of strategies to address students , learning strengths and area of weakness ,learning styles and various intelligences as well as learning how to learn . To obtain a position in a team role using teaching administrative programming and management skills. I have first hand teaching construction and building strong team environments and developing open communications. Strong acumen including teaching, translating, counseling, coordinating and administrating. Employment Type: Employee Employment Status: Full time Target Monthly Salary: (SAR 13,...
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