Abstract:
The building of workplace capability has been a major focus for many organizations seeking
to maintain their positioning in the more competitive globalislng market place. This effort
has occurred contemporaneously with the emergence of knowledge based post industrial
forms of work and the rethinking of vocational education and training systems and policies by
governments to better meet the skill needs of Australian workplaces. As a consequence of
these forces the role of the training and development practitioner and the nature of training and
development practice in organizations is changing. This paper examines dimensions of training
and development practice, which are seen as crucial for current and future workplace capability
building in Australia.
