ISBN978-0-07-340490-5

Noe has hit the nail on the head with his exceptional presentations and breakdowns of employee development (My reason for choosing this book.) His explanations of the need for the companies to become competitive and how to achieve it with traditional and cutting edge approaches makes this a must read. The reasons for training, how to do a needs assessment, and get employees to be the best they can be, becomes obtainable with his step by step processes. Go for it. You won't regret it.

I found this book to be very informative and the wide variety of topics covered involving training and development give a little something for everyone. The information in the book it present in digestible about and definitions are given for all information that may be unclear. For the beginner the is book is good but I would recommend it for use in a classroom setting where the lectures or some other form of discussion can supplement the material covered.

This is a good general introduction guide to the field of Training & Development (T&D). The basic terminology is covered in the book and the examples used to illustrate the points he makes are good.

However, a lot of the information is now somewhat outdated due to advances in technology, the Internet and the use of these things in the T&D field now. Since this book was published in 2000, it sorely underestimates the use of technology in T&D.

Not that much new material was added to this edition of a classic text. This was a good candidate, in fact, for the now-burgeoning movement to have students buy earlier editions of very expensive textbooks.

Even with Amazon's pricing, this softcover, 500+ page work goes out the door for over seventy clams. My students found serviceable copies of the third edition for a lot, lot less, and I thought that was a good thing.

Hey, if the new edition added that much incremental value, I would have insisted that this edition be procured. But so little is substantively new here that I had a hard time insisting on it...

This may be one of the driest textbooks I have read so far in my Master's Program.