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The relative impact of workplace design on training transfer
Author(s) -
Kupritz Virginia W.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.1042
Subject(s) - transfer of training , perception , context (archaeology) , psychology , knowledge management , training and development , applied psychology , computer science , management , economics , biology , paleontology , neuroscience
Abstract The study investigated worker perceptions of the relative impact of workplace design on training transfer.Although HRD research recognizes the influence of organizational context on worker ability and opportunity totransfer, the physical environment has been overlooked. This study applied environment and behavior research tohuman resource development needs in an examination of workplace design. Taking an ethnographic approach, the studyfound cumulative frequencies for elicited responses about organizational factors were highest for workplace designperceived to impede transfer and second highest for workplace design perceived to facilitate transfer. Further, ofthe individual attributes per organizational factor, workplace design features that did not support privacy needswere elicited most often as impeding transfer.