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Today’s working and business life is characterized by broad economic and social trends. Due to these external effects, companies face an increasing demand for up-to-date knowledge in order to stay competitive. Microtraining is one answer to increasing organizational learning needs. Its methodology is based on the concept of short learning units, supporting workplace-related learning, which is especially important in the context of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Microtraining is time and cost-saving, highly flexible and can be tailored to organizational learning demands (short, medium and long term).
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Thelen, A.C., Herr, S.D., Hees, F., Jeschke, S. (2011). Microtraining for Workplace-Related Learning. In: Jeschke, S., Isenhardt, I., Henning, K. (eds) Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2009/2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16208-4_31
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