Improving learning transfer in organizations / Elwood F. Holton III, Timothy T. Baldwin, editors ; foreword by Eduardo Salas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holton, Elwood F., 1957-

Baldwin, Timothy T.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Professional practice series

The professional practice series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational learning.

Knowledge management.

Employees--Training of.

Employees.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2003]

Summary:

To succeed in today's fast-paced business environment, organizations must put in place systems that help employees learn and transfer new ideas and information. While most managers recognize the inherent value in learning transfer, the successful transfer of learning is a formidable challenge for any organization. Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations features contributions from leading experts in the field of 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 levels. 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. Chapters span the entire process from front-end analysis through post-training interventions. In addition, the authors 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. Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations also includes a relapse prevention tool to help employees maintain learned skills over the long haul while demonstrating how managers can create a dynamic work group climate that encourages the initial transfer and sustains learning over time.

Contents:

Transfer of learning in today's organizational reality

Making transfer happen : an action perspective on learning transfer / Elwood F. Holton, III and Timothy T. Baldwin

The strategic challenge for transfer : CLO's speak out / Camden C. Danielson and William Wiggenhorn

New organizational forces affecting learning transfer : designing for impact / Pat McLagan

Transfer diagnosis and intervention

What's really wrong : diagnosis for learning transfer system change / Elwood F. Holton, III

Managing transfer before learning begins : the transfer-ready learner / Sharon S. Naquin and Timothy T. Baldwin

Managing the organizational learning transfer system : a model and case study / Mary L. Broad

From knowledge to performance capability

Transfer is just a symptom : the neglect of front-end analysis / Richard A. Swanson

Beyond the classroom : transfer from work-based learning initiatives / Lyle Yorks

Transfer in an e-learning context / Erik R. Eddy and Scott I. Tannenbaum

The transfer of team training : recommendations for practice / Janis A. Cannon-Bowers, Eduardo Salas, and Laura Martin Milham

From performance capability to sustained performance

Transfer is personal : equipping trainees with self management and relapse prevention strategies / Robert Marx and Lisa A. Burke

Managers as transfer agents / Reid A. Bates

Creating a climate for learning transfer / Jerry W. Gilley and Erik

Hoekstra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0787965405

OCLC:

51482157