Reengineering Corporate Training

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Reengineering Corporate Training Intellectual Capital and Transfer of Learning

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Robert E. Haskell

ISBN: 1-56720-148-2

ISBN-13: 978-1-56720-148-2

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224 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 2/28/1998

List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £55.95)

Availability: Print on demand

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Haskell emphasizes that traditional, industry-based methods of training are inappropriate, and in fact, unworkable in today's complex, knowledge-based organizations. Instead of simple rote, task-limited, short-run training, organizations must find ways to give their employees thought-based, task-extended, high-performance, and long-run learning. Haskell thus shows that the goal of training is the transfer of learning, and this is not just simple training. What it is, how it works, and how organizations can achieve it are explained in a highly readable, thought-provoking and challenging way. Traditionalists may be skeptical, but Haskell's approach provides a general framework to help understand how to think in terms of learning transfer. His book will be important, compelling reading not only for those in the academic community, but for training and development professionals throughout the public and private sectors.

Haskell argues that the training function must be reorganized from the traditional format that most organizations use to one that emphasizes the true acquisition of knowledge. In order to make this change, a fundamental concept—transfer of learning—must be understood. Based on a review of 90 years of research as well as his own experiences and findings, Haskell presents a new transfer of learning framework integrating all of the current training systems, mental models, systems archetypes, and generic thinking in the workplace. In doing so he provides the missing instructional foundations for all training and learning, and especially for what have come to be called learning organizations. He argues that half the $70 billion spent on training in business and industry is wasted, simply because what people are taught in class is not transferred to and maintained on the job.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Why Corporate Transfer of Learning Isn't Only Nice but Absolutely Necessary: The Documented Failure of HRD Training Programs
What Transfer of Learning Is and Why It Both Does and Doesn't Occur
The Importance of Corporate Transfer of Learning and How to Fix the Lack of Transfer in HRD Training Programs
Intellectual Capital: Learning Organizations and the Transfer of Knowledge
Teaming with Corporate Transfer: Personal Development and the Small Group as Team and Microworld
Product Development, Technological, and Defense Conversion: Illustrating the Economics of Analogical Transfer
The Transfer Spirit: Contexts and Cultures of Transfer of Learning
Knowledge, Expertise, Practice, and Transfer of Learning: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Mental Models: Transfer Thinking and Leveraged Learning
Systems Thinking: How to Recognize Generic Structures, System Archetypes, and Transfer Mental Models
Intuition and Decision Making: Transfer of Learning and the Unconscious
The Transfer Consultant: How to Begin Implementing Transfer and Save Your Training Dollar
Appendix A: Kinds of Transfer
Appendix B: Transfer of Learning and the Development of Computer Competencies by David Allie
Index

About the Author: ROBERT E. HASKELL is Founder and Director of TransLearn Associates, a consultancy in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, that specializes in the design of business training and educational courses. He is also Professor of Psychology at the University of New England. With expertise in learning transfer and team/small group processes, he has published four books, numerous chapters, and research articles in national and international journals. He is also Associate Editor of The Journal of Mind and Behavior.

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