ABSTRACT

Exercising autonomy in the workplace is a prerequisite for the acquisition of complex perceptual, judgement, and decision making skills widely agreed to be criteria of vocational expertise. It has wide workplace relevance. Despite the importance of autonomy for developing vocational expertise there is virtually nothing on methodologies for measuring autonomy in the British workplace in the literature. This article reports on a new approach using an application of the methodology of the Transformers Project to measure workplace autonomy in England. Workplace know how broadly distinguishes into skills required to perform particular types of tasks, and transversal level abilities, both those generally encompassed by planning and individual ones such as communication, critical thinking, evaluation, problem solving and teamwork. Agency in the workplace is the formation and implementation of intentions over relatively extended periods. Such agency is manifested as the ability to form and carry through projects involving planning and other transversal abilities. The conceptual approach to workplace autonomy taken here is that a reasonable proxy for and measure of it is the display of transversal abilities.

摘要

在工作场所行使自主权是获得复杂的感知、判断和决策技能的先决条件，这些技能被广泛认为是职业专业知识的标准。它具有广泛的工作场所相关性。尽管自主权对于发展职业专长很重要，但文献中几乎没有关于衡量英国工作场所自主权的方法。本文报道了一种使用变形金刚项目的方法来衡量英国工作场所自主性的新方法。工作场所知道如何广泛区分执行特定类型任务所需的技能和横向能力，这些能力通常包含在计划和个人能力中，例如沟通、批判性思维、评估、解决问题和团队合作。工作场所的代理是在相对较长的时期内形成和实施意图。这种能动性表现为形成和实施涉及规划和其他横向能力的项目的能力。这里采用的工作场所自主权的概念方法是，一个合理的代表和衡量标准是横向能力的展示。