This is a e-book of five papers from Learning Lab Denmark, November 2004 "Workplace learning - from the learner's perspective" . The papers herein were selected because they explore the three conference themes - learning and competence delveopment on-the-job; linking workplace learning and...

Purpose: The present study seeks to examine the efficacy of different training modalities on increasing workplace learning, representatives' intent to transfer what they learned into their work, and importantly how training impacts actual work performance. These relationships are tested in the...

Although early human capital theory recognized the relevance of workers' experience, its focus was on education and formal training. Recent studies find that much of the performance of newly hired workers is driven by learning by doing or learning from peers or supervisors in the workplace....