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Running head: Promoting Individual Informal Workplace Learning 1Promoting IndividualInformal WorkplaceLearning
Promoting Individual Informal Workplace Learning 2ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Findings...........................................................................................................................................2The way in which individuals learn in the workplace.................................................................2Factors enabling or constraining informal workplace learning...................................................4Influence of individual characteristics on the effectiveness of informal workplace learning.....5Potential benefits for individuals and the organisation of increased informal workplace learning........................................................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7Recommendations............................................................................................................................8References......................................................................................................................................10
Promoting Individual Informal Workplace Learning 3Introduction Informal learning is one of the most well-known and recognized aspect in the business organisations in the present scenario as it offers a significant number of advantages to the organisations. Informal learning is a training that offers increased level of freedom and flexibilityto the employees in learning new processes and approaches. It identifies the social implication oflearning from other individuals but has a wider scope for the individual aspect instead of socialization. It focuses upon the learning which occurs in the surrounding environment and the activities but with a more of formal objective and it occurs in an extended variety in comparison with the formal training or learning (Le Clus, 2011). It is also called as learning from the experiences as there is discussion and learning gained from the experiences of others and oneself. In present time, the organisations are forming a workplace culture where there is more of informal learning so that it can result in increased employee engagement, socialization, effective working environment and development of innovative ideas and approaches (Cross, 2011). The key purpose behind developing this paper is to promote the individual informal workplace learning so that the quality and the quantity of the individual learning could be enhanced by the means of work. The report will throw lights upon aspects such as factors that constrain or enable workplace learning, personal characteristics and its influence on learning, potential advantages of learning and recommendations for increasing the level of informal learning at the workplaces. Findings The way in which individuals learn in the workplaceIn the present scenario, there exist high persformance organisations; there is an extensive need that the employees must be prepared for the continuous changes, developments and growth. There are some important and innovate ways to learn at work in terms of consultation and experience. There are several other ways of informal learning which can be used in the organisations that comprises of critical reflection i.e. when one learns from oneself, learning by the interpersonal sources and learning from others (Ellström, 2011). The most significant way fordeveloping informal learning at the workplace without any expenses is through the employee
Promoting Individual Informal Workplace Learning 4collaboration. As per this approach, all ten organisational employees collaborate and work as team. There are team formations which help sharing of feedbacks, knowledge and experience among the team members so that more innovative ideas can be generated and faster accomplishment could take place (Ley, et al., 2013). This way of informal learning is also knownas cooperative learning where there takes place group learning by having passive and strong discussions in groups to pass information with each other and have more appropriate ways of performing tasks. Such way of informal learning helps in enhancement of both the quantity as well as the quality of the individual learning. Learning via experience, feedbacks and reflection are another ways in which individuals can learn in the workplace in the most effective and efficient manner (Choi and Jacobs, 2011). These ways of informal learning can also be explainedthrough a dynamic model of learning. (Source: Tannenbaum, et al., 2010)When the individuals receive feedbacks from other individuals or the higher authorities then it is a key source of attaining informal learning. The feedbacks are both formal and informal but when given in a way which can help the individuals to learn, understand as well as have further discussions on the same develops it is an informal way of giving feedbacks which improves the learner’s ability to understand with a positive approach. To enhance the quality and quantity of
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