PSYC 642 Human Resource Training and Development Sample Papers, Week by Week

Liberty University · MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology · Psychology, counseling and social work · Updated

PSYC 642 reads Noe's Employee Training and Development from strategic training through needs assessment, learning theory, design, evaluation, training methods and employee development. These samples argue that a credit union's training cuts cost more than they saved, build a competency model for warehouse supervisors, coach a quiet coordinator into speaking up, ask why a well-rated de-escalation course changed nothing on the wards, pitch four training methods to a grocery chain, map an HR generalist's path to training manager and review four recent syntheses of training research.

CoursePSYC 642 Human Resource Training and Development (PSYC642)
Credit hours3
ProgramMS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Length8 Module/Weeks, online
Weeks with written work7 of 8
Samples on this site7 week sample papers
SourcesLiberty's 2026-2027 catalog and the published PSYC 642 course guide
UpdatedOctober 2026

What PSYC 642 covers

Discussion falls in Modules/Weeks 1, 4 and 5, with a thread past 300 words and two replies past 150 words per forum and the textbook, another scholarly source and Scripture cited in every one of those posts; the Case Analysis and the training Memo both come in Module/Week 2.

The 2 to 4 page Essay with its competency model appendix comes in Module/Week 3, the 2 to 4 page Learning Strategy Project in Module/Week 4, the 12 to 15 slide PowerPoint on two traditional and two technology-based methods in Module/Week 6, the Personal Development Plan in Module/Week 7 and the four-article review in Module/Week 8.

Liberty's 2026-2027 catalog describes PSYC 642 Human Resource Training and Development this way:
Evaluation of techniques for training and motivating personnel. Focus on design, implementation, and evaluation of training, continuing education, and staff development programs, looking to organizational improvement. (Crosslisted with MSPS 650)

PSYC 642 week by week, with the sample for each

WeekWritten work in the course guidePointsSample
Week 1DB Forum 1 (Course Requirements Checklist and Class Introductions also due)80Read the Week 1 sample
Week 2Case Analysis and Memo (textbook case questions and a course-provided scenario; not sampled)No written paper this week
Week 3Essay130Read the Week 3 sample
Week 4Learning Strategy Project (DB Forum 2 also due)100Read the Week 4 sample
Week 5DB Forum 380Read the Week 5 sample
Week 6PowerPoint Presentation130Read the Week 6 sample
Week 7Personal Development Plan100Read the Week 7 sample
Week 8Article Review100Read the Week 8 sample

Where PSYC 642 papers lose points

PSYC 642 work loses points when a reply skips one of the three required sources, when a competency model lists traits instead of observable behaviors, when a learning strategy has no baseline to compare against, when a presentation describes methods with no client in mind and when an article review summarizes studies older than ten years.

Using a PSYC 642 sample well

The samples cite Noe, Arthur and colleagues, Salas and colleagues, Campion and colleagues, Locke and Latham, Gollwitzer and Sheeran, Blume and colleagues, Keith and Frese, Grossman and Salas, Taylor and colleagues, Sitzmann and colleagues, Sitzmann, Smither and colleagues, Bezrukova and colleagues, Bisbey and colleagues, Kraiger and Ford and Lacerenza and colleagues.

PSYC 642 questions, answered

What textbook does PSYC 642 use?

Noe's Employee Training and Development, read from strategic training and needs assessment through learning, program design, evaluation, training methods, development and the future of training.

What must PSYC 642 forum replies cite?

Like threads, every reply must be supported with the Noe textbook, at least one additional scholarly source and Scripture in current APA format.

What is in the PSYC 642 Case Analysis?

Answers to the questions at the end of a case in the Noe textbook, at least one page long, with biblical principles and support from a journal article, the textbook and Scripture.

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