Where does train collide?

In work and organizational psychology training is the planned, systematic effort to help people acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes a job requires, built from needs assessment, design, delivery, and evaluation. Goldstein and Ford's Training in organizations frames it as an instructional system whose transfer to the workplace is the real criterion of success. The referent is a designed learning intervention measured by acquired competence and transfer, sharing only a word with a line of meshing gears or a succession of waves.[1]

Unit

A designed program whose outcome is learned, transferable job competence

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Evaluated across reactions, learning, behaviour, and results, with transfer to the job as the key criterion

In the physics of waves a wave train (or pulse train) is a finite run of successive cycles emitted or travelling together, whose length and spacing set its coherence and its spread of frequencies. Hecht's Optics links the length of a wave train to coherence length and the bandwidth of the light. The referent is a bounded sequence of oscillations characterised by duration, cycle count, and coherence, unrelated to meshing gears or workplace instruction.[2]

Unit

A finite run of wave cycles, set by its length and coherence

Recovery means

Not applicable

Measured by

Described by coherence length and time, cycle count, and the associated spectral bandwidth