Factors That Influence Skill Decay and Retention¶
Arthur Jr., W., Bennett Jr., W., Stanush, P. L., & McNelly, T. L. (1998). Factors That Influence Skill Decay and Retention: A Quantitative Review and Analysis. Human Performance, 11(1), 57-101.
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Primes¶
- Maintenance Rehearsal
- In skill maintenance, recurrent training, daily practice, and language drill hold a once-installed skill against decay.
This sourceMeta-analysis finding substantial skill loss with nonuse (up to d = -1.4 after a year), motivating recurrent training and practice to hold a once-acquired skill against decay.
- In skill maintenance, recurrent training, daily practice, and language drill hold a once-installed skill against decay.
- Temporal Decay and Degradation
- Organizational knowledge and institutional memory: Expert staff retire or leave, taking specialized knowledge that was never fully documented; documented procedures become outdated as practices evolve and new tools are introduced without corresponding updates to documentation; organizational routines calcify and become misaligned with current market or regulatory conditions; informal communication networks that hold institutional memory atrophy as people leave or organizational structures change, with the underlying skill loss after periods of nonuse meta-analytically quantified by Arthur, Bennett, Stanush, and McNelly (1998).
This sourceMeta-analysis of 189 data points across 53 studies showing substantial skill loss with nonuse (effect size d = -1.4 after one year); quantitative basis for organizational knowledge degradation.
- Organizational knowledge and institutional memory: Expert staff retire or leave, taking specialized knowledge that was never fully documented; documented procedures become outdated as practices evolve and new tools are introduced without corresponding updates to documentation; organizational routines calcify and become misaligned with current market or regulatory conditions; informal communication networks that hold institutional memory atrophy as people leave or organizational structures change, with the underlying skill loss after periods of nonuse meta-analytically quantified by Arthur, Bennett, Stanush, and McNelly (1998).
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