Training in organisations : a cost-benefit analysis / John Talbot.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Scope of Training -- Chapter 2. Defining Investment in People -- Chapter 3. Who Has to be Trained and When? -- Chapter 4. Understanding Learning Problems -- Chapter 5. Techniques of Establishing Training Needs -- Chapter 6. Case Study 1: Training Analysis of a Manual Skill -- Chapter 7. Case Study 2: Operation of a Special Purpose Machine and Learning Design -- Chapter 8. Management Training Analysis -- Chapter 9. Initial Requirements for Costing and Evaluating Training -- Chapter 10. Cost of Not Training -- Chapter 11. Cost-Value Relationship in Training -- Chapter 12. How Training Costs are Caused and Recorded -- Chapter 13. Costing Treatment of Training Costs -- Chapter 14. Planning for Training and Controlling Training Costs -- Chapter 15. Evaluation of Training -- Chapter 16. On-Line Training -- The Last Word?

For many organisations, training and development remain an aspiration rather than fundamental to their business, and the consequent investment is subject to reductions or reallocations when times get tough. Yet increasing pressures from business globalisation mean that organisations are absolutely dependent on the skills of their workforce if they are to remain competitive. John Talbot's Training in Organisations: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, provides the basis for measuring and analysing the cost and value associated with training. It looks both at manual skills and management training analysis to explore the various approaches for costing training, controlling those costs and applying value analyses to the investment that is being made. Also included is a series of international comparisons across a variety of industry sizes and types which provide organisations with an important benchmark for their own spending.