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Behavior Modeling Training in North America: a Research Summary

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Corporate Training for Effective Performance

Part of the book series: Evaluation in Education and Human Services ((EEHS,volume 43))

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American industry spends somewhere between $40 and $60 billion per year on training, an amount roughly equal to all public and private education expenditures at the college level. With this enormous investment, training professionals and corporate executives should be looking for ways to get a better payoff from expenditures.

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Russ-Eft, D.F., Zenger, J.H. (1995). Behavior Modeling Training in North America: a Research Summary. In: Corporate Training for Effective Performance. Evaluation in Education and Human Services, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0667-2_8

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