Rhoder Literacy Skills

According to Rhoder, employers are facing lack of literate employees predicament, so the workplace needs to rethink the training focus. The cause is the modern technologies, new products, and new produces. The modern technologies, new products, and new procedures cause complication with customer and the employees. The literacy barrier happens because the employees’ literacy skill is not increasing with modern technologies, new products, and produces. Due to the literacy predicament, training needs to focus on employee’s basic skills and their midlevel to higher level skills (literacy), so the employees adapting to their new demands on the job. If you want employees to show acceptable literacy skills, you should not relay on basic literacy course/curriculum. According to Rhoder, employees are not exhibiting acceptable literacy skills for the job requirements. Since increase literacy skills is need for workplace

At first, basic literacy programs are less effective because literacy and illiterate has a stigma. Due to the stigma, employees are embarrassed to admit that they struggle with reading and writing. As results, the literacy program is less effect with participants. Although, Rhoder’s hospital literacy and communication program is effective because the programs incorporate elements of Scribner’s literacy metaphors. Rhoder address three criteria for effective workplace programs and three modules for literacy framework. First, the literacy program needs to be design with social context and adult learning. Second, the literacy program needs to build on prior knowledge, viewed from holistic perspective, and meaningful text. Thirdly, the literacy program’s framework should be interested and useful for