This issue features articles dealing with Capability Based Competency Assessment, Level 3 Evaluation, Performance Improvement, and how to better use conventional methods to improve your business.
We also have the first column by Jennifer McGovern Narkevicius, Ph.D.
NEXT ISSUE: We will be publishing our first case study.
Be sure to solve the Sudoku in the back, enjoy the comic, and send us any responses you have about the magazine.
The use of the Performance Model (PM) and the Enabler Matrices (EM) in driving the requirements for the products and processes of the Human Asset Management Systems (HAMS).
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Throughout the year, professionals in most fields receive invitations to attend professional conferences, expositions, and conventions. Each promises to provide a learning experience, networking opportunities, and other benefits for the time and money spent.
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Leaders in both the private and public sectors are constantly on the lookout for ways to advance the performance of their organizations, gain competitive advantage, accomplish results on behalf of those they support, and serve as stewards of the resources with which they are entrusted. In increasingly demanding economic environments the internal needs are more immediate, the ability to demonstrate positive impact on customers more important, and the ability to serve as effective resource stewards more critical.
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One of the most famous and ubiquitous frameworks was developed by Donald Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick’s model measures different types of data at various intervals (potentially before, during, and after training). There are 4 Levels of measurement within Kirkpatrick’s model.
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If someone did not show up for work in your office today, could you tell the boss how much productivity the business lost? How do you as a business manager reliably determine the personnel competencies required to do work (current & future) that directly generate, along with systems and within the organizational construct, organizational capability?
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Flip the wall switch up…what happens? Lights go on. Each culture has these expectations for the behavior of things in the environment, expectations for the behavior of the system. Human Factors practitioners contribute an understanding of human behavior and human performance to the system design trade space. This understanding contributes to design by incorporating design elements that maximize human capabilities and mitigate human limitations.
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