Harless, Kaufman and Romi

As we explored Harless and Kaufman, we viewed how they aligned criteria in various groupings. Some criteria that we looked at were: social basis, ID symptoms, define problems and solution process. For social basis, Harless and Kaufman were distant in their views. Harless viewed the whole environment and the various factors that influence an environment, such as heat, noise etc. Kaufman was a little more complex with his definition of social basis as he viewed human behavior and it's relation with society, very social learning theory if you ask me. ID symptoms had Harless indicating hypothesis while Kaufman focused on who the audience was. When defining problems, Harless was more inclined to categorize skills, the environment, motivation etc. Kaufman narrowed his focus to prioritizing the gap and attacking the real problems that created the gap. Finally, when it came down to solutions within a process, Harless was linear, straight to the point and Kaufman was more circular; always moving and never finishing.
To briefly comment on Romi's micro and macro systems approach, I would say he viewed the micro system as informal ("on the fly") and macro as systematic and very formal. Within the process for Romi and how he would analyze performance problems, I think he viewed training as potentially the solution while in macro terms training was a part or none of the solution.