Behavior Modeling Training in North America: a Research Summary

  • Darlene F. Russ-Eft
  • John H. Zenger
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Part of the Evaluation in Education and Human Services book series (EEHS, volume 43)

Abstract

American industry spends somewhere between $40 and $60 billion per year on training, an amount roughly equal to all public and private education expenditures at the college level. With this enormous investment, training professionals and corporate executives should be looking for ways to get a better payoff from expenditures.

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Behavior Modeling Trained Group Knowledge Gain Corporate Training Supervisory Training 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Darlene F. Russ-Eft
    • 1
  • John H. Zenger
    • 1
  1. 1.Zenger-MillerUSA

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