ERIC Number: ED474227
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2002
Pages: 26
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Transfer of Learning. Symposium.
This document contains three papers on transfer of training and human resources. "The Effect of Organizational Support, Management Support, and Peer Support on Transfer of Training" (Susan E. Cromwell, Judith A. Kolb) reports on a longitudinal study of work environment factors that affect transfer of training in a university supervisory skills training program. The findings indicate there is a positive correlation between management support and transfer of knowledge and skills. "The Impact of Workplace Design on Training Transfer" (Virginia W. Kupritz, Tharulatha Y. Reddy) reports on a study of office workers' transfer of training and where environment fits in with other organizational factors impacting that transfer. (Frequencies were highest for workplace design perceived to impede transfer and second highest for workplace design perceived to facilitate transfer.) "Transfer of Learning: How Managers Develop Proficiency" (Michael D. Enos, Marijke Kehrhahn) reports on the link between corporate managers' proficiency and transfer of training learnt mostly through informal means. (The study revealed that work environment does not affect transfer of learning nor are skills learned informally more readily transferred.) A model of managerial proficiency was developed from the findings. All three papers contain substantial bibliographies.(AJ)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Adult Learning, Andragogy, Cognitive Processes, Diffusion (Communication), Employer Employee Relationship, Ethnography, Human Resources, Informal Education, Labor Force Development, Learning Strategies, Longitudinal Studies, Management by Objectives, Metacognition, Nonformal Education, Organizational Development, Organizational Objectives, Postsecondary Education, Skill Development, Skills, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Theory Practice Relationship, Training, Transfer of Training, Work Environment
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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