Knowledge management - Individual level knowledge
7 important questions on Knowledge management - Individual level knowledge
What is training transfer?
Can be positive or negative, when there is no opportunity to use the new knowledge it will fade (=problem of training transfer) due to gap explicit knowledge and know how/who
How can one see if training transfer has occured?
- It shows in the maintenance of the new knowledge, so the extent to which the changes caused by the training persists over time. If the skill will be there in 0.5 yr but also in 1yr.
What is important in getting from explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge and usage
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
Investment in training gets lost because of lack transfer. Blum and Al looked at the problem and did research, what can you say about the characteristics they looked at?
- Intelligence
- Conscientiousness
- Voluntary participation
More of these = more effort to transfer that what was learned into the workplace
The individual differences are difficult to design into a training -> you cannot select trainees.
Environment characteristic
- Transfer climate > senior management sets an example to get shared understanding of importance for learning
- Support of supervisors and peers > asking what the employees learned
- Constraints taken away> e.g. low level of autonomy, situational constraints
This is easier to implement in the training, helping to facilitate transfer for all the people
How should the effectiveness of training be assessed to see the correlation with transfer?
Test of knowledge, self efficacy “do you feel more capable”, utility reactions “was it useful?”
How are good trainings designed? Name the 4 aspects
II. Understand how people learn in class rooms
III. Combine with informal learning
IV. Evaluate
How can a manager organize for the transfer of training? Name 4 possibilities:
- Organize peer/supervisor support
- Organize opportunities for use of new skills (job design)
- Make sure that the formal, explicit knowledge is transferred to practice
The question on the page originate from the summary of the following study material:
- A unique study and practice tool
- Never study anything twice again
- Get the grades you hope for
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
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