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Natural growth goals and short‐ term training: a boomerang effect
Author(s) -
Pace R. Wayne,
Regan Les,
Miller Peter,
Dunn Lee
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
international journal of training and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.558
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1468-2419
pISSN - 1360-3736
DOI - 10.1111/1468-2419.00041
Subject(s) - natural (archaeology) , training (meteorology) , session (web analytics) , psychology , perception , term (time) , applied psychology , public relations , pedagogy , social psychology , political science , business , advertising , geography , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , meteorology
The purpose of this research project was to determine the effect of a training session about achieving natural growth goals on perceptions of a university classroom as a learning organisation. The results indicated that a short training session on how to achieve natural growth goals in an organisation appeared to have a boomerang effect on perceptions of a university classroom as a learning organisation. This study should alert us to the inevitable consequence of having our best training efforts backfire when they conflict with powerful, though latent, beliefs or cultural values.