Being a newcomer is a great challenge we all face.
It creates uncertainty, along with a need for new
knowledge and skills in order to master a new job.
This is the focus of my thesis - how newcomers learn
to master their new job and how these learning
processes can be characterized. Established
colleagues as important knowledge sources is
central, and by using the term role model, newcomers
access to tacit and explicit knowledge is
recognized. In relation to understanding learning as
social and cultural, and not just limited to
individual knowledge aquisition.
The thesis also...