Week10: Human Performance Tech: Concepts and Process Models

Based on my previous cognition to HPT, it is drawn from the conception of HPI. The latter one can be concluded as an accomplishment-oriented systematic process through people in the workplace and the HPT is a more technology-centered array of processes, tools and resources, and the like. When it comes to the relationship between HPI and HPT, HPI is what we wish to achieve and HPT is the means we use to achieve it. Hence we can comprehend the two terms by the distinctions of separately focusing on the behaviors and the means. In the form of a generalized HPT model, it is clarified the relations among different elements under the scene of management, of course the contexts of training. This systematic way can help to realize the desired performance improvement with certain suitable tools and processes.

With the guides from Pershing, HPT is the study and ethical practice of improving productivity in organizations by designing and development effective interventions that are result-oriented, comprehensive and systemic. It is a complete definition including all critical terms namely study, ethical practice, improving productivity, organizations, designing and developing, effective, interventions, results-oriented, comprehensive and systemic. To understand this specific meaning, I focused firstly on the subject: study and ethical practice. Study is easily to understand for me because that is what the scholars study at. As for ethical practice, although I was a little unfamiliar to it, I then comprehended it to some extent from the Pershing’s illustrations. It was about the human, so the ethical standards and ethical practice was to bring values to clients or stakeholders. It also set a baseline not doing harming to clients under the common rule of the whole society. HPT is in the context of the business sector involving people activity, so it is necessary to form a set of ethical practices. The rest terms are defined around the center of instructional design, hence they are targeted enough to interpret.

Reference:

Pershing, J. (2006). Human performance technology fundamentals. In J. A. Pershing (Ed.), Handbook of human performance technology (3rd ed.) (pp. 5-34). San Francisco: Pfeiffer.