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Article: Moving Toward a Distributed Learning Model Based on Self-Managed Learning.
- Article from:
- SAM Advanced Management Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
- Author:
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Introduction
In a rapidly changing environment, where intellectual capital and the human factor can provide a strategic as well as competitive advantage, it is vital that companies assess their approaches to learning in the workplace and the impact of these approaches on productivity. This article will demonstrate the critical importance of the learning approaches fostered in the workplace and argue that the distributed learning model can better address the need to maintain competence as the rate of change accelerates in the workplace. Factors contributing to this argument are the increase of technological change, increased global competition, and the need to ...