Active Aging Today (AAT) began over forty years ago, as a small group of volunteers who took a special interest in the rights of people of sixty-five years of age (Straver 2017). As the business grew, AAT secured numerous grants and now has over forty-five paid employees (Straver 2017). As with any growing business, problems arose within AAT, preventing company strategies from being met. The company’s CEO, Sally, realised that she could not save the company on her own, so Alex was hired as an Administration Manager (Straver 2017). Alex quickly noticed that there were not many organisational systems put in place and those that were, he found, were out of date (Straver 2017). To keep the company current, Alex attempted to implement modern systems, …show more content…
It provides the employees with the training and education that will help them learn and update their skills that are required for the job (Clegg et al. 2016, p. 171). Training and development improves the efficiency of the staff, which will increase their production, and has a positive impact on the organization (Umamaheswari & Krishnan 2016). AAT has employed numerous staff members that at the time of the selection process, may have shown glimpses of hope, but have not responded to efforts made by the company to develop their skills (Straver 2017). Robert, the finance worker at AAT, has a hard time showing and explaining what exactly he is doing for the company (Straver 2017). Considering all the time that he has spent with the company, those skills should be developed by now and Robert should be able to explain to other employees what he is doing and how to do it. Likewise, Julia has had numerous meetings with Alex to help develop her basic computer and personal skills, but has not shown significant improvement (Straver …show more content…
2016, p. 333). According to Darla Rothman and Bernice McCarthy (2012), the four styles of learning that complete the learning cycle are action, thinking, reflecting and feeling. Any combination of the four create your own personal learning style (Rothman & McCarthy 2012). Employees at AAT are displaying signs of struggling with the learning styles that the company is using. Julia has met numerous times with Alex to improve her mental state and skill set and has shown little progress (Straver 2017). Likewise, Robert, the finance manager, is unable to explain accurately what he is doing with the finances to other employees (Straver
The training and development of employees in William Hill is imperative for the performance or the company as they are in a competitive market. William Hill has to inform workers to be aware of surroundings in the area that they work. Training and Development Training Training is essential for both employees and employer if they want to be effective within the organisation and also for a company like William Hill to stay competitive within their market. The reason why training is important to employees is to enable them to achieve their maximum potential in their current position, it is needed also to develop them to create further opportunities within the organisation because employees are likely to be better educated and become multi-skilled. Training should be ongoing within William Hill in developing the employee’s skills within the business.
Ageing is a natural process, which presents a unique challenge for all sections of the society. With gradual improvement in health-care delivery services, people in the UK are living longer, but not necessarily healthier lives. As a result, the number of people who require care in their old age is increasing dramatically. There are currently three million people over 80, and this number is expected to almost double by 2030. There are also an increasing number of elderly people living on their own, increasing the demand for specific elderly care.
This method also empowered the employees giving them an opportunity to increase their skill levels and an opportuni...
Learning is a process that individuals face every day, whether it is in classroom, at work, or surfing the Internet, but each person has a particular style in which they prefer to accomplish this learning. An individual’s learning style is the manner in which that person finds learning to be the easiest for them, and while many individuals have a primary style, everyone uses all the learning styles in various combinations throughout their day and life.
Kolb’s learning cycle is used to break up the learning process into different stages, such as doing, reflecting, conceptualizing and experiencing (Kurian, 2013, p.162). The use of Kolb’s learning cycle (1984) has a wide impact on the advancements in learning. Within the four stages, the practitioner would have taken part in a task and would have noted down their observations. At this stage the practitioner would have begun to see the positives and negatives of the task that they have just carried out. From then on the practitioner will form new ideas from the observation notes. Later, being able to use these new ideas to plan their task effectively. Once the practitioner has implemented their task, for the second time with the new ideas. Kolb’s learning cycle (1984) begins again. However, Kolb’s model has been criticized due to the fact that it does not give a wide range of detail about the process of reflection, and lacks evidence. It can sometimes be seen as rigid and sequential (Trodd, 2012,
Learning is defined as a permanent change in attitude or behaviour that occurs as a result of repeated experience (Sims & Sims, 1995). Understanding one’s learning style has many advantages as it can help one to identify the learning method or activities that can help to optimise the learning experience. It has been suggested that the importance of one’s learning style has been identified through studies and research on how one can maximise the potential for success and further learning development (Honey & Mumford, 2006). Learning styles are unique to each individual and are developed in childhood (Chase, 2001). We all have different personalities; therefore we all have preferred learning styles that suit us best. The way one learns depends on preference. Some learn by observing, listening and imitating others and draw conclusions from their experience. There are several factors that affect our learning style; for example, background, culture, religion and environment can have a major influence on one’s learning.
Active ageing does not stop when elderly people retire as they can remain active through their families, peers and communities. Active ageing aims allows elderly people to realise and bring awareness to their own psychological, physical and mental well-being as the goal active ageing is the autonomy and independence of elderly people (Alexandre, Cordeiro, & Ramos, 2009).
This strategy aims to employ workers from different backgrounds to provide tangible and intangible benefits for the business. The employers are the ones who control everything from the wage, promotions, incentives and the termination of the older counterparts. They are increasingly concerned about updated skills, physical demands, early retirement, and the cost of maintaining an older worker. Despite how employers may feel, companies cannot afford to neglect talent at any age. The employer should take advantage of the skills that the older employee posses, and carefully position them in jobs that matches their skill level as well as the job to be done. “Regardless of the change organizations make in the structure and functioning of the workplace of the future, it appears likely that older workers will play a crucial role (Hedge,Borman,& Lammlein, 2006). Different acts and laws are governed to respond to any discrimination against older employees in the workforce. Employment agencies, labor unions, local, state and Federal government are bound by these laws such as: Older Workers Benefits Protection Act (OWBPA); The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Older Americans Act (OAA), to name a few. Funds for service by the Congress are provided in forms of grants for various programs yearly. States, counties, and cities recognize the value of the servicing and are generous in providing additional funds, benefits and in-kind economic benefits too. Because area and state agencies on aging are doing very little in a way to use mass media to promote themselves, the aging network is probably missing a large number of disadvantage people who should be receiving services but who are unaware of them. Much more emphasis has been placed on tying together the federal services for the older workers, but it should not have taken a federal initiative to make states see
Anderson (2011) suggests that a dual learning style has an important role in the development of skills. Using learning styles allows the student to understand how they work best and what their preferred learning style is. However learning style theories have been criticised extensively by many, there are many educational psychologists who believe that there is little evidence for efficacy of most learning styles models. According to Greenfield (2007) the practice is “nonsense” from a neuroscientist point of view. Furthermore Henry (2007) believes “Humans have evolved to build a picture of the world through our senses working in unison, exploiting the immense interconnectivity that exists in the brain” (Henry, 2007).The foundation of being a good mentor is building a good working relationship with the student (Walsh, 2014). The student – mentor relationship is crucial to the students learning throughout the placement (Wilkes, 2006). All mentors when working with students must have effective professional and inter-professional working relationships which will enable and enhance to support the learning for students. Part of the skills required maintaining the relationship with students and the multi professional team include; being organised, prioritising, providing ongoing support and constructive feedback and being able to liaise with other
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“A learning style is a way of learning and refers to the way that you learn new information” (2). Most people have one preferred learning style and perform to a lesser standard when learning in a different style than what they’re used to. Nowadays, children are told to take a quiz in school to determine what their preferred learning style is, but after a few years, not many of these children remember what their preferred learning style is, or even if they do, they don’t apply it to their learning.
It gives rise to individual creativity within acceptable limits of trial and error. Such a development of the skills and talents of employees also evolves a great degree of self-confidence. These employees become invaluable assets of the organization as they are well versed with the organizational goals, both short term and long term.
...ll benefit when the employees are well equip with the excellent oral communication, critical thinking, strong work ethic, teamwork, competence and setting the goal which requires a lot of thinking process.
Learning is the main result of training. The staffs learn knowledge, do best practices, lessons learned, share experiences and draw new insights to improve performance by training. In addition, training help organization reduce overall cost during organization operation by providing skills for the organization (Miri, 2014). Training also help staffs to work effectively on the current job and accumulate experience to be qualified a high level position (Amin & Saeed, 2013). In fact, employees’ performance are important for organizations growing to stay competitive advantage among competitors. Organizations pay more attention to employees’ training and finance much on that. According to a survey by America Society for Training and Development, organizations are spending large amount on employee effective training that more than $126 billion each year (Jehanzeb & Bashir,
Thought out our lives, we are faced with many different learning experiences. Some of these experiences have made a better impact than others. This can be attributed to everyone’s different multiple intelligences or learning styles. A persons learning style is the method though which they gain information about their environment. As a teacher, it is our responsibility to know these styles, so we can reach each of our students and use all of the necessary methods.