This analysis starts discussing the concepts of learning and transfer of learning into organizations, according to the theoretical controversies which are inserted in psychology and the use of these terms in the daily language. Afterwards, it synthesizes the principles of the multilevel approach to build up a theory and to accomplish research into organizations and shows how they can be used for understanding the transfer of learning that results from training and development processes. Then, it makes a survey of the national research production on learning transfer into organizations, showing how the measures of learning transfer into organizations have been done and how their predictors have been identified. Following, some methodological issues of part of this research is highlighted, based on two criteria: diversity of measurement and of studied predictors. Finally it suggests how future studies could take into account the multilevel approach.
learning; learning transfer; training and development; multilevel approach
