Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business: A Guide for Trainers and Human Resource Specialists
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business: A Guide for Trainers and Human Resource Specialists
By (Author) Edward E. Gordon
By (author) Judith Ponticell
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th November 1991
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Adult education, continuous learning
Personnel and human resources management
374
Physical Properties
Hardback
224
Description
Work force education has become the quintessential human resource issue of the 1990s. Its impact is now felt by more than 80 million adults, and carries an annual $300 billion price tag in lost employee productivity. This unique book offers readers a complete review of past, present, and future adult literacy programs. It provides essential context on how this training/educational issue "suddenly" appeared. Also considered are how current programs consistently fail to close an ever-widening workplace education gap. The book does not talk around potential solutions. Instead, it gives practical, real-life case study examples, from successful on-site company programmes conducted by the authors. A blueprint is outlined on how to offer work force education for any business large or small. This book aims to provide insights to senior executives, human resource/training and development managers, or adult educators, so that they will obtain a clear understanding of how to organize a multi-level, cost-justified work force educational programme that meets 21st-century international productivity requirements.
Author Bio
EDWARD E. GORDON is President of Imperial Corporate Training and Development and has taught at De Paul and Roosevelt Universities. He has written articles in Training and Development Journal and Training Today, and is the author of several books dealing with educational history, school reform and contemporary training and development issues. JUDITH A. PONTICELL is Director of the Chicago Area School Effectiveness Council, a school improvement consortium supported by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Ponticell's research focuses on adult cognition and educational partnerships. RONALD R. MORGAN is an Associate Professor and Director of the School Psychology Program, Loyola University of Chicago. Dr. Morgan is an expert in the psychology of learning and instruction. He is the author of twenty journal articles and the co-author of two textbooks on cognition and learning.
