Team Learning: Analysis of a Model and Evaluation Instrument

Alcover, Carlos M. - Rey Juan Carlos University - Madrid – Spain

Barrasa, Ángel - Complutense University of Madrid - Madrid – Spain.

A main topic of knowledge management is concerned how people share information and knowledge, and particularly how organizations and teams learn. Suggestive proposals have been made like as the model put forward by Huber (1991) and the evaluation instrument developed by Van Offenbeek (2001), that includes four learning activities scales (distributing information, convergent aspects of sensemaking, divergent aspects of sensemaking, and storing and retrieving information). A replication was made using a Spanish sample, composed by 53 team groups (325 subjects). New teams were created to make a usefulness project, that requires almost ten work meeting during two months time till complete the project. Each team project result was evaluated. At the start and the end all members were asked to fill out a questionnaire to evaluate team learning. This paper presents the Spanish adaptation and psychometric properties of this instrument, and some recommendations to improve this. Also general reflections about the model was made.

Knowledge management - Organizational learning - Questionnaire