The role of sex composition in team training performance

The role of route and survey information on the gradual acquisition of spatial knowledge was examined in a virtual environment (VE). Navigational focus was induced by having participants learn the environment using either an opaque (route) or transparent (survey) VE. Goal focus was induced by requiring participants to train to a sequential listing (route) or map-based (survey) criterion. During initial training, the presence of a route focus, based on the environment or the stated goal, led to better performance on a survey task than an exclusively survey focus. With increased training, performance with a survey-based focus matched that with a route-based focus. Early stage navigational learning in a survey-based environment benefited from the presence of a route goal. Later stage learning resulted in similar performance between route and survey goals and navigational learning environments.

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Perspectives on Teaching: A Space for Reflection on the Sociopolitical Nature of Doing

Journal of Business and Economics ◽

10.15341/jbe(2155-7950)/10.10.2019/010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (10) ◽

pp. 1017-1022

Author(s):

Isabel Cristina Rincón Rodríguez ◽

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Jorge E. Chaparro Medina ◽

José Gregorio Noroño Sánchez ◽

Marcela Garzón Posada ◽

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Keyword(s):

Professional Practice ◽

Social Groups ◽

Student Interaction ◽

The Political ◽

Social Phenomena ◽

Training Performance ◽

Teacher Student ◽

The Social ◽

Teaching Learning

In the exercise of teaching, teachers give account of different forms of organization: emerging, self-managed and autonomous product of conceptions that arise from training, performance and experiences where the socio-political nature of both his being and individual that integrates and makes part of social groups, as in the exercise of professional practice. Under this horizon, the aim of this work is to analyze from the social function of the teacher the sociopolitical role of their task as far as the political vision has, ability to understand social problems and generate actions for which is part of a frame of reference where the concepts that allow to develop theoretical analysis to identify the sociopolitical expression of the teaching exercise are exposed, considering that in this practice this type of content is revealed in the teachers as actors of the teaching-learning process, both in the training in their performance based on the training they receive, the historical geographical relationship and the experiences that their activity provides them with what has framed this work. It is concluded that in the exercise of teaching work are present sociopolitical categories that affect both the understanding of social phenomena and the pretense of practical actions that transform these realities from the institution-teacher-student interaction.

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Using Adaptive Difficulty to Optimize Videogame-Based Training Performance: The Moderating Role of Personality

Military Psychology ◽

10.1080/08995605.2012.672908 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 148-165 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Kristina N. Bauer ◽

Robert C. Brusso ◽

Karin A. Orvis

Keyword(s):

Training Performance ◽

Moderating Role

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Team Training in the Organizational Context

The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190263362.013.55 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 252-270

Author(s):

Norbert K. Semmer ◽

Franziska Tschan

Keyword(s):

Organizational Context ◽

Team Training ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Supportive Behaviors ◽

Transfer Success ◽

Individual Variables ◽

Supportive Messages ◽

Structural Aspects ◽

Over Time

Many formal and informal units at various levels provide a heterogeneous organizational context for team training. Consolidating and adapting newly acquired knowledge and skills needs time and resources, encouragement, and feedback. It also requires supportive messages that are consistent over time, across sources, and in terms of content (e.g., general value statements as compared to specific messages). Our chapter focuses on “transfer climate,” characterized by transfer-related cues and consequences, supportive behaviors, and opportunities to perform. Discussing structural aspects, we emphasize aligning messages and actions with the goal of supporting transfer. Next we discuss the role of episodes, which unfold over time and give meaning to trainings. Finally, we discuss configurations, that is, specific constellations of influences not captured by studying the contribution of individual variables; we advocate focusing more strongly on the trainee perspective; and we emphasize fairness and appreciation as an overarching issue that may be decisive for transfer success.

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How perceptions of training impact employee performance

Personnel Review ◽

10.1108/pr-05-2017-0141 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 163-183 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Xiaoyu Guan ◽

Stephen Frenkel

Keyword(s):

Task Performance ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Organizational Citizenship Behavior ◽

Employee Performance ◽

Future Research ◽

Content Type ◽

Training Performance ◽

Study Results ◽

Time Lagged

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of firm training on the job performance of mainly semi-skilled manufacturing employees in the context of changes required to ensure the competitiveness of contemporary Chinese manufacturing.Design/methodology/approachData were collected using a survey with time-lagged method and from multiple sources. The sample included 348 supervisor-subordinate dyads from two Chinese manufacturing firms. PROCESS macro tool (Hayes) was used to test the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of HRM strength in the training-performance relationship.FindingsWork engagement mediates the relationship between training and in-role task performance, while the relationships between work engagement and both task performance and organizational citizenship behavior are moderated by HRM strength.Research limitations/implicationsBased on a time-lagged survey, causal relationships cannot be drawn from this study. Results point to future research on the training-performance relationship that more closely considers antecedents and the organizations’ internal and external contexts.Practical implicationsManagers should pay close attention to the context and process of training and learning from the employees’ perspective. In addition, a strong HRM system will improve the benefits of training on employee performance.Originality/valueThis study provides theoretical explanations on the mechanisms linking training and employee performance based on the ability-motivation-opportunity framework.

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