Research on Learning in Industrial Settings: Persistence Turnover, and Transfer

工业环境中的学习研究：持久性、流动性和转移

• 批准号: 8808711
• 负责人: Dennis Epple
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-08-15 至 1990-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8808711&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Learning; Industrial; Settings; Persistence

Little is known about how and why learning occurs in organizations, whether it persists, and how to transfer it. The proposed research empirically investigates the persistence of learning within organizations and the transfer of learning across organizations. The role of turnover in learning and its persistence are also examined. The analyses are based on data collected from one firm in the aerospace industry producing an advanced jet and from three plants of the same firm in the automotive industry producing a light truck. The research estimates production functions with variables included to assess the importance of persistence, transfer and labor turnover in affecting the efficiency of the production process. In addition to testing whether learning persists, whether it transfers, and whether turnover is related to the rate of learning, the research aims to develop a theoretical model of learning in organizations that integrates and explains the empirical findings. The research will advance scientific knowledge about why learning occurs in organizations and whether it persists and transfers. It should have implications for organizations to improve their productivity and hence, compete more effectively.

关于学习如何以及为何在组织中发生、学习是否持续以及如何转移，人们知之甚少。 拟议的研究实证调查了组织内学习的持久性和组织间学习的迁移。 还研究了周转在学习中的作用及其持久性。 这些分析基于从一家生产先进喷气式飞机的航空航天工业公司和生产一辆轻型卡车的汽车工业公司的三个工厂收集的数据。 该研究估计了包含变量的生产函数，以评估持久性、转移和劳动力流动对影响生产过程效率的重要性。 除了测试学习是否持续、是否转移以及人员流动是否与学习率相关之外，该研究还旨在开发一个组织中学习的理论模型，整合并解释实证研究结果。 这项研究将推进关于学习为何在组织中发生以及学习是否持续和转移的科学知识。 它应该对组织提高生产力从而更有效地竞争产生影响。