Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace: Volumes 1-3 (ISPI/Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace - Set) || HPT Models: An Overview of the Major Models in the Field

✍ Scribed by Silber, Kenneth H.; Foshay, Wellesley R.; Watkins, Ryan; Leigh, Doug; Moseley, James L.; Dessinger, Joan C.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 601 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0470525436
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470592663.ch20

✦ Synopsis

A s the field of human performance technology (HPT) begins to gain more mainstream attention in the eyes of those charged with improving organizational efficiency, questions arise about how to put these concepts and theories into practice. Several recent articles (Chevalier, 2000;Langdon, 2000) have described how HPT can be used in an organization. This article aims to identify the major models in the field and examine the ideas and beliefs that have lead to their conception, development, and acceptance.

For the purposes of this article, HPT is defined as a systematic approach to improving productivity and competence, through a process of analysis, intervention selection and design, development, implementation, and evaluation designed to influence human behavior and accomplishment (International Society for Performance Improvement, 2000). The article will focus on HPT as a process that bridges the gap between what is and what should be in human performance systems (Applied Performance Improvement Technology, 2000).

HPT MODELING

Modeling has traditionally been an integral part of the instructional design process. Because many of the early practitioners of HPT came from the field of instructional technology, it is not surprising that HPT process modeling has 5