Journal article
Improving the Effectiveness of Management Development Programs
Workforce management, Vol.60(10), p770
01 Oct 1981
Abstract
The success of training programs for professional and supervisory personnel depends largely on the degree to which the participants: 1. want to change their current behavior, and 2. continue to practice the new behavior after returning to the workplace. One attempt to deal with the problem of failure in participant follow-through has been the ''Contract Plan''. A short, simple contract is written by the participant which: 1. suggests a particular problem, 2. defines it in the perceived behavioral area, 3. states the impact of the problem on performance, and 4. states what the individual wants to do to correct the problem. Another participant is given a copy of the contract and calls the maker of the contract on an assigned follow-up date to make inquiries concerning progress. Reinforcement theory and expectation theory support the idea of the contract plan. Groups of trainees with contracts were found to have followed through on their training in impressive numbers. Noncontract participants, however, found it all too easy to fall into old patterns of behavior. To avoid pitfalls when using the contract approach: 1. keep the form simple, 2. discount any threat of the contract being used for other than personal development, 3. raise the issue of the contract only at the end of the session, 4. do not require the contract, and 5. follow-up partners must be aware of their obligation.
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- Title
- Improving the Effectiveness of Management Development Programs
- Creators
- S Siegel
- Publication Details
- Workforce management, Vol.60(10), p770
- Publisher
- MediaTec Publishing Inc
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Identifiers
- 991019184096004721
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