Transfer of Learned Behavior to the Work Environment
Transfer of training is a phenomenon of persistent application of the learned behavior by the trainees in the training process to their job. This learned behavior comprises of knowledge, skills, cognitive and creative strategies. The generalization of training and the maintenance of learned skills form an important component of transfer of learning. Generalization is the trainee’s potential to utilize all the skills and knowledge (verbal knowledge and psychomotor skills) on the work related problems and situations which are somewhat similar but not completely identical to the problems and situations encountered during training. Maintenance of the learned skills is to incessantly bring into play all the newly acquired capabilities.
There are several factors contributing to the whole proces