Understanding learning strategies in the workplace: A factor analytic investigation

By David Holman, O. Epitropaki, Sue Fernie. 2001

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The aim of this study was to validate a scale of learning strategies, as derived from the educational literature, in an organizational context. Participants were 628 call centre employees. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses suggested that a six-factor structure most accurately represented the learning strategies examined. Specifically, three cognitive (extrinsic work reflection, intrinsic work reflection, reproduction) and three behavioural strategies (interpersonal help seeking, help seeking from written material, practical application) were found.

Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Communication

1. Marcel A. Croon
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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Marcel A. Croon
2. Marianne van Woerkom

In Social Psychology

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2. Marianne van Woerkom
3. Maria Christina Meyers

Citations in the corpus

• Job Design and the Employee Innovation Process: The Mediating Role of Learning Strategies (2012, unknown): “Work-based learning strategies are the cognitive and behavioral practices that employees use to acquire and organize knowledge at work (Holman et al. 2001).1 There are two broad categories of work-based learning strategy (Warr and Allan 1998).”
• Operationalising critically reflective work behaviour (2008, background): “Ideas about learning activities therefore need to be tested against the conditions of everyday adult learning within work organisations (Holman et al., 2001).”