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This book explores the crucial topics: managing the organisation as a learning system; appraisal and continuous development of all its members; learning as an organisational, as well as individual, responsibility. The author concentrates on practical issues. The chapters are as follows: Part one, 'Human resource development in the organization', contains: An introduction to key issues; The politics of training; Training and development responsibilities and roles; The integration of learning and work - the organization as a learning system; The integration of learning and work - Auditing learning and developing effective learners. Part two, 'Managing training in the organization', contains: Establishing the training purpose, policy and plan at organizational level; Organizing and managing the training function; Assessing needs at operational level: job training analysis; Assessing needs at individual level - personnel specifications and records of performance; Assessing needs at individual level - trainability tests, assessment centres and self-assessment; Assessing needs at individual level - appraisal of performance; Designing the learning event - the learning task; Designing the learning event - applying 'principles of learning' to design tasks: practical issues affecting design; Designing the learning event - learning technology; Evaluation of the learning event.