Case-Based Learning in HR: 3 Industries, 3 Cases, 3 Lessons You can teach the turnover formula in ten minutes. Teaching a student what to do about it takes a case. Most HR courses handle the models well — the competency matrix, the four Kirkpatrick levels, the turnover ratio. What's harder to teach is judgment: the moment a manager has one budget, three plausible options, and no answer key. That's the gap case-based learning is built for. Instead of "here is the framework," i

A few weeks ago, a final-year student sat across from me and recited Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation flawlessly. Definitions, sequence, examples — perfect. So I asked a follow-up: "You've just run a training programme for 200 store staff, and three months later turnover hasn't moved. Where do you look first?" She went quiet. Not because she wasn't bright — she was one of the sharpest candidates that week. She went quiet because, in four years, no one had ever asked he

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