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Invited reaction: Informal learning and the transfer of learning: How managers develop proficiency

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 62 KB
Volume: 14
Category: Article
ISSN: 1044-8004
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1075

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Enos, Kehrhahn, and Bell have made an important contribution to measuring informal learning and its transfer as
proficiency in a set of company‐identified managerial skills. Measurement of informal learning is at the
crux of research that seeks to link learning outcomes to other indicators of effective performance. The ability to
show how informal learning affects managerial proficiency also would help practitioners build a better business
case for planning and supporting informal learning. A drawback to the research methodology employed in this study
is reliance on self‐report, which the authors note but do not fully discuss. Questions also arise about the
nature of skills measured and the nature of managerial work in what appears to be a period of transition in the
company they examined. I conclude with some thoughts on alternative lenses for considering implications for
practice.

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