Using “War Stories” to Train for Adaptive Performance: Is it Better to Learn from Error or Success?

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Islamic Work Ethic, innovative work behaviour, and adaptive performance: the mediating mechanism and an interacting effect (2017, background): “Adaptive performance refers to the individual’s ability to adapt to dynamic work situations (Allworth & Hesketh, 1999; Campbell, Ruan, & Wei, 1999; Griffin, Neal, & Parker, 2007; Hesketh & Neal, 1999; Joung et al., 2006).”
Learning From Others’ Failures: The Effectiveness of Failure Stories for Managerial Learning (2017, background): “Although a growing body of evidence points to the important role of vicarious learning from others’ failures (e.g., Joung et al., 2006; KC et al., 2013; Kim &Miner, 2007), to our knowledge this is the first study that extends this line of research to the context of management education.”
Individual adaptive performance in organizations: A review (2015, background): “In addition, Joung et al. (2006) used “war stories” to illustrate errors and found that those exposed to war stories instead of more traditional training were better able to identify viable alternative actions and diagnose problems that occurred across a variety of low-complexity and…”