Marie-Hélène Budworth

Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, specializing in learning, development & motivation.

Marie-Hélène Budworth

Entries from August 19th, 2011

Prosocial motivation: motivate by doing good

August 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on Prosocial motivation: motivate by doing good · Uncategorized

There has been some interesting work recently on what really motivates employees.  And a lot of this work has received a great deal of media attention thanks to Dan Pink’s book, Drive.  (For a summary of this work by the author himself, take a look at this YouTube video).  I think the most interesting work […]

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Evaluating training programs

August 2nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Evaluating training programs · Uncategorized

Argh!  The Globe and Mail recently published a short piece supporting the use of Kirkpatrick’s training evaluation model as the standard for training evaluation. I find this frustrating.  Training evaluation in practice is a place where thinking has not changed in close to 30 years.  It is a bit of a mystery given that organizations […]

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