Human resource management practice I also available by michael armstrong

Part 

5

  Learning and Development

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Questions

  1 

What is learning and development (L&D)?

  2 

What is learning?

  3 

What is training?

  4 

What is development?

  5 

What is education?

  6 

What is strategic L&D?

  7 

What are the aims of strategic L&D?

  8 

What is a learning culture?

  9 

What is organizational learning strategy?

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What is individual learning strategy?

Learning and development

Learning and development is the process of 

acquiring and developing knowledge, skills 

capabilities, behaviours and attitudes through 

learning or developmental experiences.

Strategic L&D

Strategic L&D is an approach to helping people to 

learn and develop that is concerned with how the 

organization’s goals will be achieved through its 

human resources by means of integrated L&D 

strategies, policies and practices. Strategic L&D 

aims to produce a coherent and comprehensive 

framework for developing people through the 

creation of a learning culture and the formulation of 

organizational and individual learning strategies.

Learning and development strategies

Learning and development strategies are the active 

components of an overall approach to strategic L&D. 

They express the organization’s intentions on how 

Key learning points: Strategic learning and development

L&D activities will take place in the organization and 

provide guidance on how these activities should be 

planned and implemented.

Learning culture

A learning culture is one in which learning is 

recognized by top management, line managers and 

employees generally as an essential organizational 

process to which they are committed and in which 

they engage continuously.

Organizational learning strategies

Organizational learning strategies aim to develop a 

firm’s resource-based capability.

Individual learning strategies

The individual learning strategies of an organization 

are driven by its human resource requirements, the 

latter being expressed in terms of the sort of skills 

and behaviours that will be required to achieve 

business goals.

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