Experiential Learning Theory: A Dynamic, Holistic Approach to Management Learning, Education and Development

Kolb, Alice Y.; Kolb, David A.

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“…It also challenges the notion that vocational competence progression consists solely of cognitive movement from general to specific knowledge. Instead, it appears that vocational, domain-specific understanding stimulates the acquisition of general abilities, possibly due to problem-based learning, as suggested by management learning research pertaining to business and management (e.g., Kolb and Kolb 2009). The second and third thresholds shifted by 1.170 and 1.163, respectively, revealing even larger effects for the increase of domainspecific competence and specific analytic skills during VET.…”

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Modeling the Development of Vocational Competence: a Psychometric Model for Economic Domains

Klotz

Winther

Festner

2015

Vocations and Learning

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This article discusses the development of vocational competence through economic vocational educational training (VET) from a theoretical and psychometric perspective. Most assessment and competence models tend to adopt a state perspective toward assessments of competence and carve out different structures of competence for diverse vocational domains. However, the order and at what stages of development these identified structures actually occur remains uncertain. This study therefore moves beyond a static perspective to denote changes in competence over the duration of vocational training, using item response theory-based scaling and a cross-sectional database of 877 economic apprentices. The resulting four-stage psychometric model represents a systematization of the development of vocational competence, characterized by the degree of occupational specificity and different forms of cognitive processing. This proposed psychometric model can be used to inform educational researchers and practitioners about the different stages of competence development, such that they can both assess and teach economic competence more effectively.

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Modeling the Development of Vocational Competence: a Psychometric Model for Economic Domains

Klotz

Winther

Festner

2015

Vocations and Learning

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“…However, because they are less inclined to take (Pratt, 1991;Yamazaki, 2005). However, whilst diverging and converging learning styles tend to dominate Confucian and Anglo cultures respectively; learning styles can also vary within cultures due to a combination of disposition, personality type, educational specialization, career choice, current job role and tasks (Kolb & Kolb, 2009). According to ELT, incongruence between an individual's style of learning and the norms of the learning environment may undermine her/his feelings of belonging, resulting in maladjustment (Kolb, 1984).…”

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A Study of Anglo Expatriate Managers’ Learning, Knowledge Acquisition, and Adjustment in Multinational Companies in China

Armstrong

2017

AMLE

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This study investigates Anglo expatriate managers learning, knowledge acquisition, and adjustment to the host culture when working within Anglo multi-national companies operating in China. A structural equation model based on data from 121 expatriate managers reveal that Anglo managers adjust more effectively when their learning styles are congruent with the demands of the host culture. Their levels of accumulated managerial tacit knowledge and adaptive flexibility were also associated with their learning styles which in turn led to more effective adjustment to the host culture. Implications for theory, global manager development, and expatriate management are provided.

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“…The process of learning has been examined extensively within organizational learning and development research (Dewey, 1987;Kolb, 1984;Kolb & Kolb, 2009), and internationalization studies published in this journal have begun to looked to organizational learning theory to inform their research (e.g. Fletcher & Harris, 2012).…”

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Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures

Park

Harris

2014

International Business Review

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IJV research highlights the importance of learning in international joint ventures (IJVs) but has not indicated how to achieve it. We combine organizational learning and internationalization process research within a microfoundations framework to understand learning in IJVs. We study a Samsung-Tesco IJV that successfully learned retail practice from one partner and applied it in a South Korean context known by the other. The managers used many learning processes, not just experiential learning emphasized in international business research, and used many more knowledge sources than assumed in prior research, including the IJV partners' other subsidiaries. To build absorptive capacity, IJVs need appropriate microfoundations at individual, process and structural levels, and coherent interlinkages between them, especially by having IJV managers' with extensive experience and orientation to learn who are given structural and process autonomy to invest in learning. Highlights: Learning in IJVs with dissimilar partners is best driven by autonomous IJV managers. Copying, recruitment and searching are important, not only experiential learning. Absorptive capacity building requires coherent links between levels of learning.  Partner's other subsidiaries are important sources and recipients of learning.

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Experiential Learning Theory: A Dynamic, Holistic Approach to Management Learning, Education and Development

Cited by 2,092 publications

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Modeling the Development of Vocational Competence: a Psychometric Model for Economic Domains

Modeling the Development of Vocational Competence: a Psychometric Model for Economic Domains

A Study of Anglo Expatriate Managers’ Learning, Knowledge Acquisition, and Adjustment in Multinational Companies in China

Microfoundations for learning within international joint ventures

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