Hrd Review Paper Assignment I: “an Examination of Learning Transfer System Characteristics Across Organizational Settings” by Elwood F. Holton Iii, Hsin-Chih Chen, and Sharon S. Naquin

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HRD Review Paper Assignment I: “An Examination of Learning Transfer System Characteristics Across Organizational Settings” by Elwood F. Holton III, Hsin-Chih Chen, and Sharon S. Naquin FROM: Reginald G. Ugaddan DATE: 15 April 2012 The fundamental purpose of HRD initiatives is to help employees develop skills which, when applied to work, would increase job and organizational performance. The transfer of training or the extent to which employees use their newly gained knowledge, skills and attitudes from learning environment to the workplace is critically important for HRD. Transfer of training is the goal of all HRD’s learning and training interventions, without it or the less of it means a failure of HRD program. Brief Summary of the Article Transfer of learning has been regarded as one of the most essential area in HRD and important issue for organizations today. Stream of researches have been conducted in this field but most of them are not action oriented (Holton & Baldwin, 2003). Most of the existing studies were just limited on identifying, describing, or measuring factors that influence transfer without digging deeply on how those factors might be changed or managed. Hence, the writers want to move to a more action-oriented agenda that requires a vivid understanding how transfer-related factors present themselves in the organization. In the aspect of involving practical action to deal with transfer of learning, the authors noted that theory often seems to suggest that the most potent learning transfer systems are those with high levels on all factors. However, Holton (2000) opined that, research has not established whether there is a best possible norm level for components of an organization’s learning transfer system. He further contended that it seems likely that the particular factors in the organization’s transfer system are

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