Improving learning transfer in organizations
By: edited by Elwood F. Holton, III and Timothy Baldwin, editors ; foreword by Eduardo Salas.
Contributors: Holton, Elwood F., 1957-.; Baldwin, Timothy T.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; Pfeiffer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
Subjects: Organizational learning.; Knowledge management.; Employees -- Training of.
Description: Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations features contributions from leading experts in the field learning transfer, and offers the most current information, ideas, and theories on the topic and aptly illustrates how to put transfer systems into action. In this book, the authors move beyond explanation to intervention by contributing their most recent thinking on how best to intervene in organizational contexts to influence the transfer of learning. Written for chief learning officers, training and development practitioners, management development professionals, and human resource management practitioners, this important volume shows how to create systems that ensure employees are getting and retaining the information, skills, and knowledge necessary to accomplish tasks on the job. Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations addresses learning transfer on both the individual and organizational level. This volume shows how to diagnose learning transfer systems, create a transfer-ready profile, and assess and place employees to maximize transfer. The book includes information on how to determine what process should be followed to design an organization-specific learning transfer system intervention. The authors focus on the actual learning process and show how to use front-end analysis to avoid transfer problems. In addition, they outline the issues associated with such popular work-based learning initiatives as action learning and communities of practice, and they also present applications on learning transfer within e-learning and team training contexts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Transfer of learning in today's organizational reality; title: Making transfer happen : an action perspective on learning transfer / Elwood F. Holton, III and Timothy T. Baldwin; title: The strategic challenge for transfer : CLO's speak out / Camden C. Danielson and William Wiggenhorn; title: New organizational forces affecting learning transfer : designing for impact / Pat McLagan; title: Transfer diagnosis and intervention; title: What's really wrong : diagnosis for learning transfer system change / Elwood F. Holton, III; title: Managing transfer before learning begins : the transfer-ready learner / Sharon S. Naquin and Timothy T. Baldwin; title: Managing the organizational learning transfer system : a model and case study / Mary L. Broad; title: From knowledge to performance capability; title: Transfer is just a symptom : the neglect of front-end analysis / Richard A. Swanson; title: Beyond the classroom : transfer from work-based learning initiatives / Lyle Yorks; title: Transfer in an e-learning context / Erik R. Eddy and Scott I. Tannenbaum; title: The transfer of team training : recommendations for practice / Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Eduardo Salas, and Laura Martin Milham; title: From performance capability to sustained performance; title: Transfer is personal : equipping trainees with self management and relapse prevention strategies / Robert Marx and Lisa A. Burke; title: Managers as transfer agents / Reid A. Bates; title: Creating a climate for learning transfer / Jerry W. Gilley and Erik Hoekstra.