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Designing Culturally Appropriate Training and Development Programs: A Learning Styles Approach

Intercultural Management in Practice

ISBN: 978-1-83982-827-0, eISBN: 978-1-83982-826-3

Publication date: 16 August 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the design of culturally appropriate training and development (T&D) strategies for enhancing the performance of employees and organizations, using a learning style approach. We provide an example of African countries and use the results of a review of studies on African cultural values and management to discuss learning styles and T&D. The underlying premise is that T&D strategies are only effective when they are designed to fit with the cultural context. Based on Experiential Learning Theory (ELT, Kolb, 1984; 2014), the chapter reviews the Kolb (1984, 2014) learning model as a basis for designing T&D programs and applies this model using the African results. Given the limited number of studies on Kolb's learning styles cross-culturally, we suggest avenues for further research.

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Galperin, B.L. and Punnett, B.J. (2021), "Designing Culturally Appropriate Training and Development Programs: A Learning Styles Approach", Chavan, M. and Taksa, L. (Ed.) Intercultural Management in Practice, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 97-106. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-826-320211009

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