Human Performance Improvement and Human Performance Technology for me were firstly heard from this course. So I have an eager to figure out these specific conceptions which related to the human behavior.
From the article by Stolovitch, I learned that HPI is the systemic process of linking business goals and strategies with the workforce responsible for achieving the goals. This spirit points out the key field of HPI mostly refer——business. Hence I can better understand this term from the perspective of economy category. From the further elaboration about three perspectives including vision, concept and desired end, it is can be easily found out that HPI is highly related to human’s involvement and valued accomplishments. HPI serves as a bridge between the strategies for improvement and the ultimate desired goal. HPI stressed the effective results or max benefits with the low costs. Separately, three words of HPI clarified the specific notions from the subject, the quantified result, and the action of making things better. All in all, HPI originates from the business category, aims at improving the valued accomplishments. It is can be concluded that HPI is what we wish to achieve and HPT is the means we use to achieve it. Although HPI is relatively new, the HPT is a part of HPI from this definition. I can comprehend the two terms by the distinctions of separately focus on the behaviors and the means.
Then the connections between HPI and instructional technology becomes more intriguing. Harless developed the performance improvement process and front-end analysis methodology and then posed a great influence on instructional designers, as well as the Mager and Pipe’s analysis on performance problems. 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 systemic way can help to realize the desired performance improvement with certain suitable tools and processes.
If we think of the importance that HPI brings to instructional design technology, it may lie in that the HPI provides a vision to see instructional processes as business management and the performance support paves the way to make the instructional design process more effective and efficient.
Reference:
Stolovitch, H. D. (2018). The development and evolution of human performance improvement. In R. A. Reiser & J. V. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (4th Ed.), (pp. 121-131). New York, NY: Pearson Education.
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