The Changing Concepts of Expertise and Expertise Development

Yujin Kim ()
Additional contact information
Yujin Kim: Sangji University

Chapter 2 in Expertise at Work, 2021, pp 17-38 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter introduces the evolving concepts and developmental mechanisms of expertise. It begins by presenting definitions of expert and expertise, and moves to a review of the traditional concepts of expertise from the psychological perspective with its focus on individual excellence and the sociological perspective with its emphasis on expertise development. The next section focuses on expertise at work. Common skill acquisition models are addressed and practitioners are asked to consider the limitations of such models for identifying and building expertise in their organizations. This is followed by a presentation of the role of adaptive expertise and flexible expertise for dealing with unpredictable contextual demands and transferring expertise to other contexts. Finally, the chapter concludes with emerging ideas of expertise development in the workplace. These may be useful for finding general mechanisms of expertise development that explain and guide expansion and transformation of expertise for adaptation to dynamic contexts of the workplace.

Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-64371-3_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030643713

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64371-3_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().