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This chapter introduces the author’s motivation to write this book and illustrates its structure, which refers to the systematic approach to training. It is outlined that the book aims to facilitate the understanding of the task and the target of the job of control room operators in the context of the organisation (needs assessment), and to derive the knowledge and skills required to fulfil the task in order to define training objectives. It is announced that the book develops propositions for how to best acquire the knowledge and skills and to support transfer based on the state-of-the-art research on knowledge and skill acquisition, retention and transfer for complex task work and teamwork tasks. An outlook is provided with respect to the concept of the “Staged Process Control Readiness Training” (SPCRT) as the instructional technique.
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Kluge, A. (2014). Why This Book Has Been Written: Purpose and Structure of the Book. In: The Acquisition of Knowledge and Skills for Taskwork and Teamwork to Control Complex Technical Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5049-4_1
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