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Direct linkCrossman, Donna Cangelosi – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2010
This study was an effort to add to the body of research surrounding Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model (BEM). The model was tested to determine its ability to explain factor relationships of organizational safety culture in a high-risk work environment. Three contextual variables were measured: communication, resource availability, and…
Descriptors: Safety, Motivation, Program Effectiveness, Engineering
Peer reviewedFortney, Kathleen S.; Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2013
This naturalistic inquiry investigated how instructional designers engage in complex and ambiguous problem solving across organizational boundaries in two corporations. Participants represented a range of instructional design experience, from novices to experts. Research methods included a participant background survey, observations of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Work Environment, Corporations, Self Concept
Larson, Miriam B.; Lockee, Barbara B. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2004
Instructional Design and Technology (IDT) professionals practice their skills in a broad range of career environments and job roles. The resulting collection of competency lists and wide range of practice environments, coupled with the frequent changes that have always characterized the field, produce complexity that is difficult to communicate to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Career Development, Job Performance, Performance Technology
Ranieri, Kathryn L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2004
Effective problem-solving skills are critical in dealing with ambiguous and often complex issues in the present-day leaner and globally diverse organizations. Yet respected, well-established problem-solving models may be misaligned within the current work environment, particularly within a team context. Models learned from a more bureaucratic,…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Problem Solving, Guidelines, Work Environment
Marken, James A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
Activity Theory has often been used in workplace settings to gain new theoretical understandings about work and the humans who engage in work, but rarely has there been sufficient detail in the literature to allow HPT practitioners to do their own activity analysis. The detail presented in this case is sufficient for HPT practitioners to begin to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Work Environment, Corporations
Chen, Hsin-Chih; Holton, Elwood F., III; Bates, Reid A. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2006
Transfer theories, which are closely related to evaluation theory, have been developed from a holistic perspective, but most of empirical transfer research has not effectively utilized holistic models to investigate transfer of learning until the late 1990s. Additionally, little has been done in examining the relationship between situational…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Holistic Approach, Models, Work Environment
