Informal Workplace Learning: An Exploration of Age Differences in Learning Competence

Autor/inn/en	Schulz, Melanie; Rosznagel, Christian Stamov
Titel	Informal Workplace Learning: An Exploration of Age Differences in Learning Competence
Quelle	In: Learning and Instruction, 20 (2010) 5, S.383-399 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0959-4752
DOI	10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.03.003
Schlagwörter	Informal Education; Self Efficacy; Age Differences; Business; Competence; Work Environment; Training Methods; Staff Development; Cognitive Ability; Memory; Adult Learning; Learning Processes; Predictor Variables; Correlation; Surveys; Internet; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Kompetenz; Arbeitsmilieu; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme; Personnel development; Personalentwicklung; Denkfähigkeit; Gedächtnis; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Learning process; Lernprozess; Prädiktor; Korrelation; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	Informal learning is becoming a standard format in companies' training and development (T&D) activities. It requires a specific learning competence comprising cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions. In the present study, it was investigated whether learning-competence variables predict success in informal learning. Given the ageing of the workforce, we also explored age differences in learning competence in an online survey of 470 workers in three age groups (17-35, 36-50, and 51-65 years old) at a German mail-order company. Learning competence predicted success in informal learning independent of worker age, but was partially mediated by memory self-efficacy, which might induce "second-order" age effects under unfavourable T&D conditions. (Contains 10 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10