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Learning to Practice Engineering in Business: The Experiences of Newly Hired Engineers Beginning New Jobs

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This chapter reports on a study of the experiences of engineers beginning new jobs in a business organization. The overriding question guiding the study was: What and how do newly hired engineers learn to work in a business organization? Two major concepts frame this study: First is the idea of an occupational community as a setting for practice, and second, the process of socialization whereby new members of an occupational community learn how to practice.

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Korte, R. (2019). Learning to Practice Engineering in Business: The Experiences of Newly Hired Engineers Beginning New Jobs. In: Christensen, S.H., Delahousse, B., Didier, C., Meganck, M., Murphy, M. (eds) The Engineering-Business Nexus. Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, vol 32. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99636-3_16

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