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This book presents a research thesis of a large-scale study conducted with over 50 large organizations in 7 countries with 80 business leaders to understand how businesses speed up the proficiency of their employees to meet business challenges. The book describes a start-to-end research study that explored the concept of ‘accelerated proficiency’ of employees in organizations. The book is organized into five chapters. The book introduces the concept of accelerated proficiency in a business context in light of reviews of four decades of classic studies. The research methodology to identify sources, recruit participants, and the mechanism to collect as well as analyze data have been explained in detail. The book reveals six business practices implemented by organizations across the board that seem to make a major impact in shortening the time to proficiency of employees. Important observations and findings have been discussed as implications in regards to how organizations orchestrated six business practices as an input-output-feedback system to reduce the time-to-proficiency of the workforce. The book briefly explains how these six practices were implemented through a set of twenty-four strategies in various contexts. The concepts and findings discussed in this book contribute significantly to the body of knowledge on accelerated proficiency. In particular, the conceptual model and the framework developed in this study can be implemented across a range of contexts, business sectors, job types, and settings to reduce the time-to-proficiency of the workforce.

Target readers

This book is meant for researchers and practitioners in the learning and training domain. This book is equally useful for those who are taking up a doctorate program and yet to develop their thesis.

Book outline

This research thesis is organized into six chapters:

Chapter 1: Introduction: The first chapter laid out and focused on introducing the research topic. The chapter also laid the foundation for the remaining chapters by summarising the literature review, research problem, and justification to conduct this study.

Chapter 2: Literature Review: This chapter reviews the existing literature and identifies the gaps in the literature regarding the focus area of study. This chapter reviews different theories, and models found relevant to accelerating proficiency. Gaps from existing theories and models are noted to establish a research context and problem for this study.

Chapter 3: Research Methodology: This chapter presents the research design and selection of the data collection methodologies and qualitative research methodology. It offers a justification for choosing the pragmatic paradigm and describes how data were collected and processed. The data analysis methodology is also explained. The methods employed for ensuring validation and reliability of the research study and its findings are described as well.

Chapter 4: Research Findings: This chapter discusses the details of data analysis performed on the collected data and presents the findings from the data analysis. Results are presented for each of the research questions in two parts. The first part of the chapter describes the summary of overarching themes that were formed during data analysis based on the emergent themes. The second part of the chapter describes the details of emergent themes noted under each research question. Part three of the chapter provides an analysis of the results of time-to-proficiency reduction seen in project cases analyzed in this study.

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Implications: The final chapter discusses the results, explains the major interpretations, and relates the findings to the existing literature. This chapter outlines an important section on a conceptual model of accelerated proficiency that is derived from the findings and discussions. This chapter also outlines the major contributions made by this study to the body of knowledge. The limitations are explained and a detailed agenda for future research for extending this study.

Table of Content

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1.2 BACKGROUND

1.3 RESEARCH PROBLEM AND QUESTIONS

1.4 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE STUDY

1.5 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY

1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

1.7 DELIMITATIONS AND ASSUMPTIONS

1.8 OUTLINE OF THE THESIS

1.9 CHAPTER SUMMARY

Chapter 2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 INTRODUCTION

2.2 PERFORMANCE

2.3 PROFICIENCY

2.4 ACCELERATED PROFICIENCY

2.5 METHODS OF ACCELERATING PROFICIENCY

2.6 CONCLUSION ON RESEARCH ISSUES

Chapter 3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 RESEARCH DESIGN

3.3 SAMPLING AND PARTICIPANT SELECTION

3.4 DATA COLLECTION

3.5 DATA PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT

3.6 DISTRIBUTION PROFILE OF SELECTED PROJECT CASES

3.7 DATA ANALYSIS PROCESS AND METHODS

3.8 VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY METHODS

3.9 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

3.10 CHAPTER SUMMARY

Chapter 4 RESEARCH FINDINGS

4.1 INTRODUCTION

4.2 THEMATIC STRUCTURE OF EMERGENT THEMES IN DATA ANALYSIS

PART-1: OVERARCHING THEMES

4.3 RESEARCH QUESTION #1: MEANING OF ACCELERATED PROFICIENCY

4.4 RESEARCH QUESTION #2: DRIVING FACTORS AND BENEFITS OF REDUCED TIME-TO-PROFICIENCY

4.5 RESEARCH QUESTION #3: PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES TO ACCELERATE PROFICIENCY

PART-2: EMERGENT THEMES

4.6 RESEARCH QUESTION #1: MEANING OF ACCELERATED PROFICIENCY

4.7 RESEARCH QUESTION #2: DRIVING FACTORS AND BENEFITS OF REDUCED TIME-TO-PROFICIENCY

4.8 RESEARCH QUESTION #3: PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES TO ACCELERATE PROFICIENCY

PART-3: ANALYSIS OF TIME-TO-PROFICIENCY RESULTS OF PROJECT CASES

4.9 ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF TIME-TO-PROFICIENCY REDUCTION IN PROJECT CASES

4.10 CHAPTER SUMMARY

Chapter 5 CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.2 SUMMARY OF EMERGENT THEMES

5.3 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH QUESTION #1

5.4 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH QUESTION #2

5.5 DISCUSSION OF RESEARCH QUESTION #3

5.6 CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND FRAMEWORK

5.7 CONCLUSION ON RESEARCH FINDINGS

5.8 CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE STUDY

5.9 CONTRIBUTIONS TO METHODOLOGY

5.10 RECOMMENDATIONS TO PRACTITIONERS

5.11 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

5.12 DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

5.13 CHAPTER SUMMARY

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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