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Informal Workplace Learning: An Exploration of Age Differences in Learning Competence
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Schulz, Melanie; Rosznagel, Christian Stamov – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Informal learning is becoming a standard format in companies' training and development (T&D) activities. It requires a specific learning competence comprising cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions. In the present study, it was investigated whether learning-competence variables predict success in informal learning. Given the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Self Efficacy, Age Differences, Business
Beyond the Learning Process and toward the Knowledge Creation Process: Linking Learning and Knowledge in the Supportive Learning Culture
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Yoon, Seung Won; Song, Ji Hoon; Lim, Doo Hun – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This integrative literature review synthesizes the concepts and process of organizational knowledge creation with theories of individual learning. The knowledge conversion concept (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka, Toyama, & Byosiere, 2001) is used as the basis of the organizational knowledge creation process, while major learning theories relevant…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Adult Learning, Adult Students, Learning Processes
Learning, Dynamic Capabilities and Operating Routines: A Consumer Package Goods Company
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Swift, Peter E.; Hwang, Alvin – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: This paper seeks to present organizational learning processes of knowledge accumulation, articulation, codification and subsequent routine development in a marketing services organization where judgment and rules of thumb were more the norm than codified knowledge and explicit routines. The case illustrates how organizational learning…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Codification, Learning Processes, Leadership
Knowledge Transfer among Projects Using a Learn-Forget Model
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Tukel, Oya I.; Rom, Walter O.; Kremic, Tibor – Learning Organization, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of learning in a project-driven organization and demonstrate analytically how the learning, which takes place during the execution of successive projects, and the forgetting that takes place during the dormant time between the project executions, can impact performance and productivity in…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Manufacturing, Memory
Training Practices and Organisational Learning Capability: Relationship and Implications
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Jerez Gomez, Pilar; Cespedes Lorente, Jose J.; Valle Cabrera, Ramon – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2004
This paper provides an in-depth study of the relationship between the company's training strategy and its learning capability. On a sample of 111 Spanish companies from the chemical industry, tests a set of hypotheses which link four different training strategies with the learning capability dimensions. The results obtained from the regression…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Human Resources, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing
Operationalizing the Concept of Value--An Action Research-Based Model
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Naslund, Dag; Olsson, Annika; Karlsson, Sture – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: While the importance of measuring customer satisfaction levels is well established, less research exists on how organizations operationalize such knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to describe an action research (AR) case study resulting in a workshop model to operationalize the concept of value. The model facilitates organizational…
Descriptors: Action Research, Training Methods, Staff Development, Employee Attitudes