Theories Of Learning Capabilities: VAK Learning Style, Personal Style, And Employer Obligations Essay. (70 Characters)

Discuss About The Theories Shows Various Learning Capabilities?

Learning theories shows various learning capabilities and styles adopted by people in education or in organisation. These styles varies from one person to the other depending on the capacity they can intake while learning (Ghaedi and Jam 2014). The paper focuses on the learning theory suggested by VAK and the application of a particular style from this theory on personal usage. Further the report discusses about a development plan and the responsibility of an employer and employee on each other according to the Australian law.

VAK Learning style

VAK Learning theory was first suggested by a psychologist way back in 1920s. The funder of this theory was child specialists who used to teach small kids. Through their experience about various capabilities in a child, they came up with this theory. It shows three forms of learning style in people and each individual vary in these styles. According to this theory, every person likes to use only single way of learning things. The understanding ability differs from person to person. Some are more used seeing things; while there are others that like to hear and get involved in that thing. Based on this the theory suggested three types of learning style known as the sensory receiver (Gholami and Bagheri 2013).

This type of learning involves learning by looking at the visual or video of the topic. These types of learners require more concentration to read each and every aspect presented in the video and also understand the concept the video wants to show (Willis 2017).

This type of learner use audio or oral channels to learn and understand a topic. The oral channels explain the things to the learner and the learner also get a chance to interact in an oral learning. This helps them gain more knowledge in short period of time (Moayyeri 2015).

This type of learning includes a physical involvement of the learner in the learning session. healthcare involvement can be in the form of a field survey, interview or acting out the story that they are learning. It also requires a lot of self-effort put by the learner just like in visual style.

The most preferred learning style according to my capability is the auditory learning style that involves listening to an audio related to the field of learning (Narváez Pérez Hernández López and Llanos Marín 2017). However, this style also allows the person to speak on the topic along with listening. It also use repetitive method to explain a single thing if it is confusing. This style of learning is helpful as it gives a chance to the leaner to get involved in the discussion and share their own view or convey their thoughts on the views given by others. I have used this type of learning in my office  while doing group discussions and I have realised that it helped me learn much easily compared to other methods. For example, in my office, before our presentation we do group discussion where we all discussed about the topic that we were going to present in front of our client. As we discussed the topics and asked each other to explain a part of it which was assigned to us by our team leader, we realised that our task is getting complete very fast. Thus, auditory style will help to put the thing into the mind of the learner as it is discussed.

Visual Learning

source: (Author’s creation)

Potential employers

Employers in the workplace of Australia have some legal and moral obligations towards their employees in the work place. These are called employment-related legislation. These legislations are given on the issues like the tax, payment, leaves and day off to the employees. Thus, the employers should be clear that while formulating their business rules they comply with the law of the legislation (Barry and You 2017). In case of tax obligations the employers have, there are two types of laws such as PAYG and Payroll taxes. On the other hand, while formulating the payment amount for the employees the employers should comply with the minimum wage law of Australia, necessity to issue pay slips, and other payment necessary. The minimum wage is revised by the government every year and should be considered by the employer at the present rate (Hirsch, Kaufman and Zelenska 2015). In case of granting leaves, the employers should include three types o leaves for the employees such as paid leaves, sick leaves and maternity and parental leaves. Superannuation is another facility that is given to the employees by the employers which is also known as the retirement saving facility. The eligibility criteria to be kept in mind are the age of the employee should be between 18 to 69 years and he/show must be fully or pat time employed in the company. Work place environment is the most important scenario to be considered by the employer while planning their infrastructure. Unhealthy environment will affect the health of the workers negatively (Business.qld.gov.au 2017).

The government of Australia also employ certain boards and department to take care of this employment laws and punish them incase of any wrong. The employees have the right to reach out to these departments in case of any injustice done to them (Hersch and Shinall 2016).

Worksafe department is formed to take care of any harassment and violence in the workplace.

Fair Work commission has the responsibility to take care of the bulling that is taking place in the work environment (Capuano 2016).

Equal Opportunity Commission Western Australia and Human Rights Commission is formed to look after any discrimination done to employers on ground of sex, race, age and family.

Wage line department to look after labour relations and Fair Work Ombudsman for any disruptions in workplace rights (Novak 2014).

Along with these rights and benefits that the employer offers to their employees, the workers of the business also have some obligations and responsibility towards their employers (Government of Western Australia 2017). The most common responsibilities of the employee are:

1. To be honest towards the work they do in the workplace
2. To make justice and sensible decision that is required in a particular situation
3. Not to disturb the environment of the company y taking part in activities such as trade unions
4. Obey the orders given by the employers provided they are legal and right
5. Work carefully and responsibly for every work that it allotted to the employee by the employers
6. Not to do illegal activities in the business by getting in touch with the competitors of the business
7. To mange with the holidays and week offs with the company in case of urgencies

Thus, this shows both the employees and employers are eligible for certain obligations to each other in order to make the business work successfully.

References

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