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Improving learning transfer in organizations
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The professional practice series
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San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2003
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9780787965402

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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.


Author Notes

The Editors
Elwood F. Holton III is Jones S. Davis Distinguished Professor of Human Resource, Leadership, and Organization Development in the School of Human Resource Education at Louisiana State University.

Timothy T. Baldwin is Professor of Management and Subhedar Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.


Table of Contents

Eduardo SalasJ. Kevin FordElwood F. Holton III and Timothy T. BaldwinCamden C. Danielson and William WiggenhornPatricia McLaganElwood F. Holton IIISharon S. Naquin and Timothy T. BaldwinMary L. BroadRichard A. SwansonLyle YorksErik R. Eddy and Scott I. TannenbaumJanis A. Cannon-Bowers and Eduardo Salas and Laura Martin MilhamRobert D. Marx and Lisa A. BurkeReid A. BatesJerry W. Gilley and Erik HoekstraTimothy T. Baldwin and Elwood F. Holton III
Forewordp. xi
Prefacep. xiii
The Authorsp. xv
Part 1 Transfer of Learning in Today's Organizational Reality
1 Making Transfer Happen: An Action Perspective on Learning Transfer Systemsp. 3
2 The Strategic Challenge for Transfer: Chief Learning Officers Speak Outp. 16
3 New Organizational Forces Affecting Learning Transfer: Designing for Impactp. 39
Part 2 Transfer Diagnosis and Intervention
4 What's Really Wrong: Diagnosis for Learning Transfer System Changep. 59
5 Managing Transfer Before Learning Begins: The Transfer-Ready Learnerp. 80
6 Managing the Organizational Learning Transfer System: A Model and Case Studyp. 97
Part 3 From Knowledge to Performance Capability
7 Transfer Is Just a Symptom: The Neglect of Front-End Analysisp. 119
8 Beyond the Classroom: Transfer from Work-Based Learning Initiativesp. 138
9 Transfer in an E-Learning Contextp. 161
10 The Transfer of Team Training: Recommendations for Practicep. 195
Part 4 From Performance Capability to Sustained Performance
11 Transfer Is Personal: Equipping Trainees with Self-Management and Relapse Prevention Strategiesp. 227
12 Managers as Transfer Agentsp. 243
13 Creating a Climate for Learning Transferp. 271
Part 5 Conclusion
14 The Bottom Line: Talking Points for Transfer Improvement in Organizationsp. 307
Name Indexp. 311
Subject Indexp. 317