DEVELOPING HUMAN CAPITAL IN AMERICAN MANUFACTURING A CASE STUDY OF BARRIERS TO TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

• Main Author: Crutchfield, Elaine B. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Garland Publishing, Inc 1999
• Series: Garland studies on industrial productivity
• Subjects: Human capital > United States; Employees > Training of > United States
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• Physical Description: 224 pages 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0815335849

This book examines how one organisation, typically described as a high-performance organisation, attempted to put theory into application. Specifically, the book examines the concepts of needs assessment, systems theory, organisation development, human capital theory, and performance improvement. The results find a systemic failure in human asset development initiatives rooted in the failure to view the organisation as a whole, systematically assess performance, and involve the entire organisation in designing and implementing a holistic approach to improving performance and developing the organisation's human assets. Specifically, inefficient organisational structure and a lack of clearly defined business goals were significant barriers to the systematic development of their human assets