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From Instructional Systems Design to Managing the Life Cycle of Knowledge in Organizations
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Salisbury, Mark – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
This article describes a framework for managing the life cycle of knowledge in organizations. The framework emerges from years of work with the laboratories and facilities that are under the direction of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The article begins by describing the instructional systems design (ISD) process and how it is used to…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Laboratories, Instructional Systems, Knowledge Management
Impact of Virtual Work Environment on Traditional Team Domains.
Geroy, Gary D.; Olson, Joel; Hartman, Jackie – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2002
Examines a virtual work team to determine the domains of the team and the effect the virtual work environment had on the domains. Discusses results of a literature review and a phenomenological heuristic case study, including the effects of post-modern philosophy and postindustrial society on changes in the marketplace. (Contains 79 references.)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Heuristics, Literature Reviews, Performance Technology
Variables Affecting the Participation in Individual Development.
Polach, Janet L. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Discusses the need for workers to acquire more information at an increasing rate in response to changes and developments in the workplace and proposes three variables that affect an individual's participation in an organization's development process. Considers learning participation and implications for human development practitioners. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Individual Development, Information Needs, Learning Strategies, Organizational Change
How To Manage the Emerging Generational Divide in the Contemporary Knowledge-Rich Workplace.
Novicevic, Milorad M.; Buckley, M. Ronald – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Addresses the manager's dilemmas and options in resolving emerging latent intergenerational conflict in the contemporary knowledge-rich workplace. Topics include a theoretical framework for generational divide management; the polarization in task requirements; social and environmental factors; differences in employee needs and expectations; and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Entry Workers, Generation Gap, Social Influences
The Virtual Office: A Behavior Engineering Model (BEM) Perspective.
Austin, John; Garnier, Luis – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 1998
Discusses issues associated with the virtual office. Summarizes advantages and disadvantages from employees' and employers' perspectives. Uses the behavior engineering model (Thomas Gilbert, 1996) as a framework to analyze different factors related to performance, and suggests the application of other concepts from human performance technology and…
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Information Technology, Job Performance
A Holistic Approach toward Motivation To Learn in the Workplace.
Kontoghiorghes, Constantine – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2001
Identifies key variables within and outside the learning context that could affect motivation to learn during training. Bases the theoretical framework on sociotechnical systems, total quality management, and training transfer theories that could influence employee and organizational performance. Considers task autonomy, organization's orientation…
Descriptors: Ethics, Learning Motivation, Organizational Climate, Performance Factors
Achieving Business Success by Developing Clients and Community: Lessons from Leading Companies, Emerging Economies and a Nine Year Case Study
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Bernardez, Mariano – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
Empirical evidence and recent revisions of conventional business doctrine indicate that companies that actively promote social performance and develop their clients' markets and skills as part of business strategy have a better chance of achieving sustainable profitability and growth than those that do not. This article discusses how landmark…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Social Environment, Job Skills