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Training, development and learning
This chapter discusses and explores a number of critical issues related to training, development and learning (TDL). It does this by highlighting the differences between the terms, reflecting on older, more classical approaches to training versus more contemporary and recent trends that are more situation or context-specific. Such context-specificity means that the older approaches to training, although useful, have to be rethought. More recent trends in global organizations such as technological advances, human expectations of what constitutes a valuable job, organizational expectations related to capabilities that match strategic business needs, and increased social interaction, have meant that the older approaches are now less valuable