Chapter 3 LITERATURE REVIEW Employee training programs : Author: James S. Graves, Ph.D., psy.D.

A key element in any workplace violence prevetion program is employee Training. Training provides the practical framework with information, Expectations and skill development for a program. This provides Rational for training, and practical guidelines to designing and delivering Training. Five supplements provide sample outlines of workplace violence Prevention trainings, targeted for delivery to groups of employees with Differing responsibilities within the organization.

Employee trainings and development and the learning organization: Author: Jelena Vemic, Faculty for Service Business, Kamencic@verat.net.

The global competition and swiftness of changes emphasize the importanc of Human capital within organizations, as well as the swiftness and ways of Knowledge gaining of that capital. In the economy where uncertainty is the Only certainty, knowledge is becoming a reliable source of sustained Competitive advantage. Knowledge is becoming basic capital and the trigger of Development. Perviously built on foundations of possessing specific resources And low costs, present day competition is based on knowledge possessing and Efficient knowledge management. Modem organizations therefore use their Resources (money, time, energy, information, etc.) for permanent training and Advancement of their employees. Human capital and sustainable competitive advantage: an analysis of the

Relationship between training and performance: Author: Ignacio Danvila del Valle & Miguel Angel Sarte Castillo, Published Online: 22 April 2008# Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008.

This article analyses the importance of training as a creator of human capital, Which enables a company to obtain competitive advantages that are sustainable In the long-term that result in greater profitability. The study is based on the General theoretical framework of resource and capacity theory. The study not Only analyses the impact of the influence of training on performance; it also Attempts to analyse the nature of such a relationship in greater depth. This being the case,an attempt has been made to measure explanatorycapacity from two different perspectives: the universalistic approach and the contigent approach. At the outset, two hypotheses are formulated that attempt to quantify the relationship from a universalistic perspective to later, in two more hypotheses, incorporate the potential moderating effect of the strategy into the model, in order to verify whether or not this strategy improves the explanatory power of our model of analysis.s