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Question

1. Describe the forces affecting the workplace and learning. How can training help Jamaican companies deal with these forces? Which of these force's do you think most affect Jamaican Companies?

2. Discuss the relationship between formal training and development, informal learning, and knowledge management. How are they related to learning and creating a learning organization?

3. What steps are included in the training design model? What step do you think is most important? Why?

4. What are intangible assets? How do they relate to training and development?

5. How are companies using training and development to their benefit in today's economy?

6. Training professionals continue to debate whether the ISD model is flawed. Some argue that ISD should be treated as a project management approach rather than a step-by-step recipe for building training programs. Others suggest that ISD is too linear and rigid a process-that it is the primary reason training is expensive, and that it takes too long to develop. ISD focuses on inputs; management wants outputs. Businesses want results, not the use of a design technology. Do you believe that ISD is a useful process? Why or why not? Are there certain situations when it is a more (or less) effective way to design training?

7. In your opinion, which of the training professionals' roles would be most difficult to learn? Which would be easiest?

8. How might technology influence the importance of training professionals' roles? Can technology reduce the importance of any of the roles? Can it result in additional roles?