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Competency-Based Corporate E-Learning Systems - An Experiment with Outsourcing Firms in Bangalore


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Corporate e-learning initiatives often appear to have been implemented with too little consideration for organisational issues. The potential benefits of e-learning as a tool for creating organisational competencies are usually not realised to a full extent. The focus of the present paper is on integrating corporate e-learning and competency for the BPO environment. This study reveals many areas of work environment including the number of hours of training, their annual income and demographic details. The research is conducted to address the issues of potential of competency-based corporate e-learning (CbceL).The paper gives a microscopic view of the concept. It presents a bird's eye view of how some major IT giants use e-learning. The paper throws light on some important subthemes like individual psychographics, team psychographics, individual learning style, e-learning platform, team learning style, courses delivered through e-learning and individual and team performance. This paper is an effort to analyze the key issues and important concepts to link performance to CbceL. The study has identified four factors which are statistically significant at 0% level. Factors such as knowledge, 3600 learning with appropriate psychographics and learning style at the individual level.

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Competency-Based Corporate E-Learning (CbceL), Virtual Organisations (VO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Human Resource (HR).
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C. G. Sumithra
M.P. Birla Institute of Management, Bangalore, India

Abstract


Corporate e-learning initiatives often appear to have been implemented with too little consideration for organisational issues. The potential benefits of e-learning as a tool for creating organisational competencies are usually not realised to a full extent. The focus of the present paper is on integrating corporate e-learning and competency for the BPO environment. This study reveals many areas of work environment including the number of hours of training, their annual income and demographic details. The research is conducted to address the issues of potential of competency-based corporate e-learning (CbceL).The paper gives a microscopic view of the concept. It presents a bird's eye view of how some major IT giants use e-learning. The paper throws light on some important subthemes like individual psychographics, team psychographics, individual learning style, e-learning platform, team learning style, courses delivered through e-learning and individual and team performance. This paper is an effort to analyze the key issues and important concepts to link performance to CbceL. The study has identified four factors which are statistically significant at 0% level. Factors such as knowledge, 3600 learning with appropriate psychographics and learning style at the individual level.

Keywords


Competency-Based Corporate E-Learning (CbceL), Virtual Organisations (VO), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Human Resource (HR).

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