Achieving Results from Training: How to Evaluate Human Resource Development to Strengthen Programs and Increase Impact (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series) [Hardcover]

Robert O. Brinkerhoff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 11, 1987 | Series: Jossey Bass Business and Management Series

Shows how to design and conduct evaluations of HRD programs and demonstrate their worth and value to the organization: how to use evaluation methods to determine results; to develop, implement, and debug
newly designed programs; or to refine existing ones.

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Shows how to design and conduct evaluations of HRD programs and demonstrate their worth and value to the organization: how to use evaluation methods to determine results; to develop, implement, and "debug" newly designed programs; or to refine existing ones.

From the Back Cover

Discover how to design and conduct evaluations of HRD programs and demonstrate their value to the organization. Includes evaluation methods for determining results, and ways to develop, implement and "debug" new programs or refine existing ones.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 248 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1st edition (May 11, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555420443
• ISBN-13: 978-1555420444
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,560,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert O. Brinkerhoff, Ed.D., an internationally recognized expert in evaluation and training effectiveness, has provided consultation to dozens of major companies and organizations in the United States, South Africa, Russia, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. Some of his many clients include Anglo-American Corporation, Bank of America, Bristol Meyers Squibb, Canadian Tire, Central Intelligence Agency, Ford Motor Company, QUALCOMM, U.S. Postal Service, and the World Bank.

Brinkerhoff is an author of numerous books on evaluation and training, and has been a keynote speaker and presenter at hundreds of conferences and institutes worldwide. Many leading corporations and agencies have adopted his methods and tools for training effectiveness and evaluation.

He earned a doctorate at the University of Virginia in program evaluation and is recently retired as Professor of Counseling Psychology at Western Michigan University, where he coordinated graduate programs in human resource development. He is currently a principal consultant and alliance partner with Advantage Performance Group, a firm that provides business-linked training products and services and also offers training and certification in the High Impact Learning Success Case Method processes globally.

Brinkerhoff's work experience includes a five-year stint as an officer the U.S. Navy, a carpenter, charter-boat mate in the West Indies, grocery salesman in Puerto Rico, and factory laborer in Birmingham, England where he saw the original Beatles. He has four children, thankfully mostly chronologically grown, and lives with his wife and several unruly dogs in Richland, Michigan. He can be reached at [e-mail].