Fermer
Loading
Fermer

Fermer
You consult a document to analyse its content and determine whether it is useful for your teaching purposes. You order a document to use it in class. Note that the use of certain cases is subject to charges. These cases are easily identified by our business partners’ logos. When you want to use one of these cases in an educational context, you are redirected to the trading partner with which you will carry out the transaction.

From Training Programs to the Creation of a Corporate Education System: The Case of a Russian Industrial Company
Case 9 30 2011 013
Case published in the International Journal of Case Studies in Management, Vol. 9, No. 2
Author : 
Languages : 
  • English
Keywords: 
  • Organizational restructuring,
  • Human resources,
  • Training program
Year of production : 
2008
Registration date : 
2011-06-15
Teaching notes included : 
Yes
Abstract

Building up and growing a business involves consistent development of the main business processes, including the creation of organizational structures that make it possible to implement a company's strategic advantages. This case study describes the development of a training system in a large manufacturing company. Starting with the training in functional areas, the company saw a need to centralize its training and staff development processes and to develop a new system focusing on the creation and transfer of common corporate values, the integrity of orientation training and knowledge sharing.

Primary domain : 
Human resources
Secondary domain : 
Not available
Sectors : 
  • Manufacturing
Source : 
Elsewhere
Type : 
Traditional case 
Type of data used in the production of the case : 
Undefined
Event location : 
Russia
Year of start of the event : 
2007
Year the event ended : 
2007
Business size : 
300
Teaching objectives

The case study is intended for MBA and Master’s courses in Human Resources Management, Personnel Training and Development. The case has several educational purposes:

  • To show, by example, the main principles of staff training and development theory concerning the creation of organizational training systems;
  • To outline the problems of the creation of a staff training and development system in a large and rapidly developing manufacturing company;
  • To help students master skills in evaluating the staff training and development system of a large company by defining its advantages and disadvantages with respect to the organizational tasks;
  • To help students master decision-making skills regarding the creation of a staff training and development system in compliance with organizational tasks and objectives;
  • To help students master skills for creating a complex structure – a corporate university – involving a number of managerial decisions: creating the university structure; defining the curriculum, target groups, and training selection methods; devising curriculum content; defining training providers.