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Applying Adult Learning Principles to Employee
Training. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Nov 2008, Pages: 140
The purpose of training employees is to increase
their knowledge and improve productivity. It is in
the best interest of both employees and employers to
make the training process as effective as possible.
This study applied the principles of Knowles’s
Andragogical Theory to the employee training in the
company studied and identified those principles that
were most effective in improving the training
results from the employees’ perspective. The
principles of the Andragogical Theory are (1) adults
are motivated to learn as they experience needs and
interests that learning will satisfy , (2) adults’
orientation to learning is life-centered, (3)
experience is the richest resource for adult
learning, (4) adults have a deep need to be self-
directing, and (5) individual differences among
people increase with age.
All companies have some form of employee training,
so the results of this study are applicable to any
company interested in improving the effectiveness of
employee training. Leaders of organizations, as well
as trainers, should be able to make use of what this
study has to offer.
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