Familiarity, Exemplars, and Lessons
When especially crafted as management tools, history—or OM and its coworker, experiential learning—provides several important elements in the unavailable educational mix (Kransdorff, 2006). First, they give individuals an inheritance and a familiarity of business that they would not otherwise acquire, qualities that would furnish employees with a head start in the life race that is their career. Secondly, these tools provide role models, which as entertainment and sports have shown, are great motivators. More importantly, they would also give individuals the opportunity to learn the lessons of prior businesspeople and organizations, giving employers a much more valuable manpower resource that is prior experience. ...
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