Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations

Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations featurescontributions from leading experts in the field learning transfer,and offers the most current information, ideas, and theories on thetopic and aptly illustrates how to put transfer systems intoaction. In this book, the authors move beyond explanation tointervention by contributing their most recent thinking on how bestto intervene in organizational contexts to influence the transferof learning. Written for chief learning officers, training anddevelopment practitioners, management development professionals,and human resource management practitioners, this important volumeshows how to create systems that ensure employees are getting andretaining the information, skills, and knowledge necessary toaccomplish tasks on the job.Improving Learning Transfer in Organizations addresseslearning transfer on both the individual and organizational level.This volume shows how to diagnose learning transfer systems, createa transfer-ready profile, and assess and place employees tomaximize transfer. The book includes information on how todetermine what process should be followed to design anorganization-specific learning transfer system intervention. Theauthors focus on the actual learning process and show how to usefront-end analysis to avoid transfer problems. In addition, theyoutline the issues associated with such popular work-based learninginitiatives as action learning and communities of practice, andthey also present applications on learning transfer withine-learning and team training contexts.