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The first 50 years.(American Society for Training and Development)
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T&D
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May 1, 2004
- Author:
- Galagan, Pat
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Looking back over the first five decades of ASTD's existence, it's easy to think the world was in slow motion. We see such rapid change in the workplace nowadays that it's slightly shocking to look back over 50 years and discover that people in the training profession were championing new methods and processes for decades before they gained momentum.
It took eons for managers to shake off the influence of the industrial revolution on the practices of management and supervision. Peter Drucker's early writing on management began to change people's thinking, but progress was slow. Following such work as Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation and Kurt Lewin's ...