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Govaerts, Natalie; Kyndt, Eva; Dochy, Filip; Baert, Herman – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate some factors that have an influence on employee retention. Based on the literature and previous research, both employee and organisational factors are taken into account. Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected by means of a questionnaire that was distributed on a voluntary basis in…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Talent, Employees, Organizational Climate
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Rebelo, Teresa Manuela; Gomes, Adelino Duarte – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between some variables (organizational structure, organizational dimension and age, human resource characteristics, the external environment, strategy and quality) and organizational learning culture and evaluate the way they interact with this kind of culture.…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Interviews, Organizational Development, Performance Factors
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Li, Chung-Kai; Hung, Chia-Hung – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how information literacy can enhance job performance in the workplace setting. Design/methodology/approach: Building on extant research, an integrated framework in which information literacy is related to person-job fit which in turn influences job performance is proposed. A survey questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Literacy, Individual Characteristics, Vocational Adjustment
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Thomas, Hywel; Qiu, Tian – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: Within the context of policies on developing the workforce of the government health sector in England, this paper aims to investigate participation in work-related continuing education and training (WRCET), its pedagogy and effectiveness. Individual and organizational characteristics associated with effective WRCET are examined.…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Change
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Cegarra-Navarro, Juan G.; Sabater-Sanchez, Ramon – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: Feedback learning transforms social knowledge into individual knowledge. In this process, tension arises because the current knowledge impedes the assimilation of new learning. Therefore, the feedback requires what Schumpeter refers to as "creative destruction": discarding, or at least setting aside, the institutional order to enact…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Systems, Transfer of Training, Knowledge Management
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Renkema, Albert – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: Since the end of the previous century social partners in different branches of industry have laid down measures to stimulate individual learning and competence development of workers in collective labour agreements. Special attention is given to stimulating learning demand among traditional non-participants to lifelong learning, such as…
Descriptors: Employees, Intention, Lifelong Learning, Labor Force Development