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Article: The learning curve and production standards : learning implications.
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- Review of Business
- Article date:
- March 22, 1991
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The Learning Curve and Production Standards: Learning Implications
Introduction
The phenomenon of learning is a natural characteristic of human activity. For the job participant, learning is an important source of psychological growth; for the organization, learning is a source of increased efficiency and ingenuity [1]. From either perspective, learning is a goal toward which efforts should be directed. Although it is a natural characteristic of human activity, there is a substantial degree of variation possible in how quickly and to what extent learning occurs. To assume that learning will just happen is to fail to understand that learning can be ...