Updating Performance Improvement's Knowledge Base: A Call to Researchers and Practitioners Using Gilbert's Behavior Engineering Model as an Example

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This article places a call to both researchers and practitioners in the performance improvement field to update and revise existing theories and models as a way to continue informing the performance improvement community. A field of study is valuable to its community only if its knowledge base, including its theories and models, remain updated and meet the demands of the current environment. If there is a mismatch between a discipline’s knowledge base and the demands made by its community and its environment, that discipline runs the risk of becoming less relevant to its community. The greater the mismatch, the less relevant a discipline will become. This call highlights the need to update existing performance improvement theories and models using newly developed theory development, research, and analysis techniques. This effort will help to ensure that the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) will remain a preferred source of knowledge tomorrow and well into the future.

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