118774_1: Learning and Development in a Knowledge Economy: The Fundamentals of Research Methodology

Topics Covered

Chapter 1: The Nature of the Knowledge Economy in a South African Context

• Terminology related to organisational development and organisational change
• Career development in the knowledge economy
• Implications of the knowledge economy on developing the careers of learning and development professionals
• The knowledge economy work environment

Chapter 2: Legislative, policy and regulatory frameworks governing skills development

• The National Qualifications Framework (NQF)
• Role players in skills development
• The principles and processes of organisational development and change in an organisation

Chapter 3: The National Skills Development Strategy

• The purpose of the National Skills Development Strategy
• The nature of the National Skills Development Strategy
• The National Skills Development Strategy and the Human Resource Development Strategy for South Africa
• The goals of the National Skills Development Strategy
• The Skills Levy Institutions
• Building partnerships for a skills revolution
• Implementation of the National Skills Development Strategy
• Monitoring and evaluating the National Skills Development Strategy

Chapter 4: Strategies for Organisational Change

• The nature of organisational change in a knowledge economy
• Reasons why employees might resist change
• The strategic process of skills development
• Human resources and the strategic process

Chapter 5: Stakeholder Management

• Stakeholder management and engagement in vocational or occupational learning environment
• Stakeholder management, theory, concepts, principles and process of engagement
• Stakeholder analysis, mapping and profiling techniques
• Lifelong learning and stakeholders
• Motivating stakeholders

Chapter 6: Planned Skills Development Interventions in an Organisation

• The Skills Development Strategy
• Planning and organising the skills development process: the planning System
• The Skills Development Plan
• The Annual Skills Development Report (ASDR)
• A strategic approach to job creation and job enrichment through quality skills development
• Credibility
• Identifying and prioritising learners’ learning needs
• Where do learning needs come from?
• Gathering information on skills development
• Collating, analysing and storing information
• Recording data
• Skills development results
• Justification for learning programmes
• Confirming learning outcomes with stakeholders
• The report on the difference between planned and completed Learning
• Learning supported with discretionary funding
• Why service providers should be listed in the ASDR
• Planned learning
• Providers available
• Name of the learning provider
• In-house learning
• Making recommendations and submitting workplace skills plan reports
• Recording the strengths and weaknesses of the learning interventions
• Formulating recommendations
• Reviewing skills development recommendations
• Submitting skills development reports

Chapter 7: Ethics and Good Governance

• The functions of governance
• Collecting information on ethics and governance
• The importance of ethics in recruitment
• The importance of ethics in remuneration
• Ethics and diversity

This course is part of the following qualifications that we offer:

1. Core 118774 - Advanced Occupational Diploma: Learning and Development Advisor Level 7, 195 Credits