ABSTRACT
This chapter presents findings from one aspect of the Sussex University project on the development of knowledge and skills in employment (Eraut et al., 1998). This involved double interviews, 6-12 months apart, with 120 people operating at a professional, management, team leader or technician level in 12 organisations. These were medium to large organisations in the engineering, business and health care sections. The approach adopted was to find out what types of work activity our respondents were currently conducting, what types of knowledge and skill were entailed, how they had acquired the capability to do what they now did, and what factors had affected this learning process.
