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Improving Mental Models Through Learning and Training – Solutions to the Employment Problem

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The increasing flat, diverse and complex and has now entered the era of knowledge economy in the world, whether business or personal, in order to maintain long-term competitiveness and vitality, it must be continuing to improve mental models, keep the change corresponds to a flexible and open, the “spiritual conversion”. With the introduction of the concept of mental models, people pay more attention to the psychological factors which the management. By analyzing the meaning and connotation of mental models, learning and training employees to improve their mental models to meet the employment requirements of the development of the times, through two levels: the enterprise level with the staff at the individual level to improve the mental models, to enhance corporate and individual competitiveness.

Department of Education Academic Humanities and Social science research projects, Guizhou. No.: 11FDY009.

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  1. School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Xiang Kaibiao

  2. The Materials and Metallurgical College, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China

    Xian Heng

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  1. Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, 100044, China, People's Republic

    Zhenji Zhang

  2. , Department of information Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, 3 Shangyuancun, Xizhimenwai, Beijing, 100044, China, People's Republic

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  3. , School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Haidian District, Beijing, 100044, China, People's Republic

    Juliang Zhang

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Kaibiao, X., Heng, X. (2013). Improving Mental Models Through Learning and Training – Solutions to the Employment Problem. In: Zhang, Z., Zhang, R., Zhang, J. (eds) LISS 2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32054-5_70

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