Incompetency training: Theory, practice, and remedies |
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Authors: | Arch G Woodside |
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Institution: | Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Department of Marketing, Fulton Hall 450, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, United States |
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Abstract: | “Incompetency training” includes formal and informal instruction that consciously (purposively) or unconsciously imparts knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior (including procedures) that are useless, inaccurate, misleading, and/or will lower performance outcomes of the trainee versus no training or training using alternative training methods. “Imparts” in the definition refers to exposing a trainee to incompetency training; such exposure is not a guarantee that the training increases the trainee's incompetence. This editorial is to stimulate research interest among scholars in incompetency training theory, evidence, and the efficacy of remedies. The editorial offers an early workbench model of incompetency training theory. The theory includes the proposition that executives and associates in firms, academia, and government organizations consciously as well as unknowingly offer incompetency training in many contexts. Increasing trainees' vigilance and ability to recognize exposure to incompetency-training may help trainees to decrease the effectiveness (impact) of exposures to incompetency training—advancing incompetency training theory and knowledge of incompetency training practice may be necessary conditions for remedying negative outcomes that follow from trainees receiving such training. Available evidence supports the first proposition and, to a limited extent, the second proposition. |
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Keywords: | Competitor-oriented Contexts Deregulation Experience curve Evidence Incompetency AIDS HIV Key success factor Key success factors Portfolio planning Profit-oriented Heuristics Training |
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