Comparing the comprehension of employees at Hewlett-Packard who have participated in interactive Web-based training and the comprehension of employees at Hewlett-Packard who have participated in static Web-based training

Organizations are rapidly becoming aware that training their personnel is not an option, but an essential aspect to survive technological advancements and global competition. An important component of organizational development is web-based training. In order to maximize employee comprehension static and interactive web-based training must be examined.; The purpose of this study is to compare the comprehension of employees at Hewlett-Packard who have participated in interactive web-based training and the comprehension of employees at Hewlett-Packard who have participated in static web-based training. Given that purpose, an experimental pretest-posttest control group research design with random assignment will be utilized. The population is 650 Personal Systems Group sales employees within Hewlett-Packard's worldwide commissioned sales force.; The treatment for this study includes an experimental group that received interactive web-based training and a control group that received static web-based training. The statistical procedures utilized for analysis include basic descriptive statistics and analysis of covariance. A 95% confidence level (p < .05) will be used to determine statistical significance. The criterion for educational meaningfulness will be one-third of the standard deviation (d = 0.33).; The analysis of covariance yielded an F-ratio of 0.12 that was not statistically significant (p = .726) and an effective size (d = 0.05) that was not educationally significant. The adjusted mean for experimental group (18.50) was not statistically significantly higher than the adjusted mean for the control group (18.33). It should be noted that both groups did make a statistically significant (p < .001) increase regardless of treatment.; The findings within this study suggest that there is no statistically significant difference between the comprehension of employees who have participated in interactive web-based training and the comprehension of employees who have participated in static web-based training. The findings also suggest that both groups made a statistically significant improvement regardless of the treatment. The findings of this study support the no statistical significance findings suggested by Richard Clark.