{"id":20490,"date":"2023-05-21T21:18:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/adult-learning-and-development-in-the-workplace-workplace-learning-plan-assignment\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T21:18:38","slug":"adult-learning-and-development-in-the-workplace-workplace-learning-plan-assignment","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/adult-learning-and-development-in-the-workplace-workplace-learning-plan-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Learning and Development in the Workplace Workplace Learning Plan Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine that you are a consultant asked to assist FoodCare\u2014a social service organization–by drafting a workplace
\nlearning plan to address employee issues in their company. FoodCare provides food assistance at community locations
\nthroughout NYC and has over 200 employees. You are told that FoodCare is facing many challenges because of massive
\nchanges at work due to the COVID pandemic. Here is what you have been told: <\/p>\n

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\u2022 Because FoodCare provides in-person services and goods, some employees in the organization
\nhave been reporting to the office and work on-site. <\/div>\n
\u2022 Most employees work remotely. Computers and other equipment have been provided to
\nemployees who work remotely. <\/div>\n
\u2022 A subset of remote employees have been informed that they must prepare to transition back to
\non-site work in the near future. They have not been given details of when this will occur or how it
\nwill roll out. (e.g., how their physical work stations might be different, what the protocols in the
\noffice for social distancing or office cleaning will be, etc.). Supervisors have hinted that some of
\nthe returning employees may be asked to perform new and different duties once they return to
\nthe office. Many in this group are extremely stressed and have voiced this to their managers.<\/div>\n
 \u2022 All employees hold meetings remotely using a variety of videoconference applications. Although
\neveryone seems to know how to enter virtual meetings, there is a good deal of confusion about
\nconduct at remote meetings regarding things like: expectations for how staff should participate,
\nhow managers should supervise in the virtual space, and about how recordings of zoom sessions
\nare stored and disseminated, etc.<\/div>\n
\u2022 FoodCare would like to gather data about vaccination status of employees yet HR leaders are not
\nup to speed on what is the best system to sensitively, legally, and reliably get this information.<\/div>\n
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Your job in the paper is to come up with a preliminary workplace learning plan to address two (2) of the issues. As you
\ncan probably see, FoodCare is dealing with many difficulties at varying levels of the organization. We want you to zero
\nin on two (2) learning gaps to focus on in your plan. Sorting through the multiple challenges to zero in on a couple of
\nissues is actually a first important piece of your work in this assignment.
\nThis paper should be based on our coursework and course materials over the semester. Additional guides\/samples are
\nalso available on the course site. Incorporating outside readings and peer-reviewed research is not required. We
\nbelieve you have enough tools on the course site to think through and put together a first-rate plan. That said, it is
\ncrucial that you cite all materials you use in APA format\u2014including materials from our course.
\nHere are the issues to cover\/questions to answer in the plan: <\/div>\n
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1. What are the issues you will consider first and why?
\na. What are the relevant questions about the a) organization, b) the employees, c) the current
\nchallenges\/situation, d) resources in the organization, and e) the organizational context (mission,
\nlearning culture, attitudes towards learning) that you should try to understand better before doing
\nanything else? <\/div>\n
2. What kind of learning needs assessment or analysis might you do?
\na. How would you propose to carry out this assessment? What methods would you use to find out about
\nthe learning needs of staff members? Whose learning needs would you try to assess? <\/div>\n
3. How will you differentiate between what is a training or learning issue at FoodCare versus what is an issue that
\ncalls a solution apart from learning? How can you determine which issues can be addressed through a training
\nor learning program and what are issues that cannot be solved by training?
\na. Can you see this immediately from what you\u2019ve already been told? Discuss.
\nb. Can you sort the issues into those that could be solved with training and those that need something
\nother than training? Discuss. <\/div>\n
4. What qualities about the organizational staff and their learning needs would you want and need to know more
\nabout in designing a training or learning program?
\na. What factors, for example, might be shaping their experiences, their motivation, or capacity to learn?
\nDiscuss. <\/div>\n
5. What kinds of learning needs to be addressed? In other words, what needs to be learned?
\na. Are the learning gaps in the area of knowledge, skills, attitude, awareness\/ understanding? Discuss.<\/div>\n
6. What types of learning approaches, methods or strategies would you employ in your proposed program?
\na. In other words, how would your program \u2018teach\u2019 or \u2018train\u2019 employees? What would this look like?
\nb. Which learning needs can be addressed by informal vs formal approaches?
\nc. Which learning needs require individual-level interventions and which require approaches to groups or
\nstaff members as a whole? <\/div>\n
7. What goals or learning outcomes would you set for each type of learning program\/strategy?
\na. What do the learners need to do, know, understand, or be as a result of going through the learning
\nprogram? <\/div>\n
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8. Overall, what aspects of the consultant role would you carry out in this planning process?
\na. Are there any parts of this role that you enjoyed in this assignment? Are there any aspects of this role
\nthat have been difficult or challenging for you as you carried out this assignment? <\/div>\n
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