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Liu, Dong; Fu, Ping-ping – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
This study examined the roles of 3 multilevel motivational predictors in proteges' personal learning in teams: an autonomy-supportive team climate, mentors' autonomy support, and proteges' autonomy orientation. The authors followed 305 proteges in 58 teams for 12 weeks and found that all 3 predictors were positively related to the proteges'…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teamwork, Cognitive Processes, Predictor Variables
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Nimon, Kim; Reio, Thomas G., Jr. – Human Resource Development Review, 2011
This article describes why measurement invariance is a critical issue to quantitative theory building within the field of human resource development. Readers will learn what measurement invariance is and how to test for its presence using techniques that are accessible to applied researchers. Using data from a LibQUAL+[TM] study of user…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Social Theories, Reliability
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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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Quinlan, Elizabeth – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2008
The prevailing discourse informing most Canadian training and labor market policy assumes a positive link between individuals' training and their labor market returns in the new knowledge economy. The primary objective of the study is to test the current rhetoric by developing a statistical model of women's job-related training. Training…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Structural Equation Models, Education Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
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Bates, Reid; Khasawneh, Samer – International Journal of Training and Development, 2005
This paper examines the relationship between organizational learning culture, learning transfer climate, and organizational innovation. The objective was to test the ability of learning organization culture to account for variance in learning transfer climate and subsequent organizational innovation, and to examine the role of learning transfer…
Descriptors: Innovation, Correlation, Predictor Variables, Transfer of Training
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Chiaburu, Dan S.; Marinova, Sophia V. – International Journal of Training and Development, 2005
Results from a study examining the predictors of skill transfer from an instructional to a work environment are presented. Prior research indicates that skill transfer is a function of both individual and contextual factors. A total of 186 employees from a work organization were surveyed on individual dimensions (goal orientation, training…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Motivation
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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