Leveraging member expertise to improve knowledge transfer and demonstrability in groups

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 337-350

  Bonner, Bryan L ^a   Baumann, Michael R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Demonstrability; Expertise; Groups; Knowledge transfer; Transfer of learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; DECISION MAKING; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE;

CONSENSUS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KNOWLEDGE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TRANSFER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84861133532     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025566     Document Type: Article

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