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The Coming of Age of Workplace Learning A Time Line

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Sun May 01 1994

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Chronicles the growth of the field of workplace learning in the U.S. Appearance of the title of training director on organizational charts in the 1940s; Permeation of anti-communist themes into training program in the 1960s; Application of the sociotechnical systems theory to training in the 1970s; Contributions of the American Society for Training and Development to the field.

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