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Knorr, Helena – Online Submission, 2008
Current workforce trends show increasing numbers of older workers that will continue to work beyond retirement. To remain competitive, organizations will have to accommodate to emerging needs and provide alternatives to retirement. Scarce literature exists about career transitions beyond retirement. Recent scholarship is reviewed through an…
Descriptors: Retirement, Career Change, Human Resources, Transitional Programs
Alawneh, Muhammad K. – Online Submission, 2008
This article investigates factors that motivate participants in learning and training activities to transfer skills, knowledge and attitude from the learning setting to the workplace. Based on training transfer theories hypothesized by Holton (1996), one of the major theories that affect an organization's learning is motivation to transfer theory.…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Motivation, Learning Theories, Influences
Yaw, Dorothy Carole – Online Submission, 2007
This paper reviews recent e-mentoring literature to provide human resource development (HRD) professionals and practitioners with insights into emerging trends of e-mentoring in virtual education. A brief overview of e-mentoring, benefits, barriers, and successes are presented. Evaluation strategies for an e-mentoring environment are also provided.
Descriptors: Mentors, Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Computer Mediated Communication
Li, Jie; Alagaraja, Meera – Online Submission, 2007
The authors suggest a conceptual framework for developing CU's in the Chinese organizational context. We reviewed literature on existing conceptual frameworks and chose the CU wheel as proposed by Prince and Stewart. Four core processes identified in the CU wheel were realigned and readjusted in developing our framework of Corporate University in…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Models, Global Approach, Labor Force Development
Short, Darren; Keefer, Jeffrey M.; Stone, Sophia J. – Online Submission, 2006
There is a recognized gap between HRD practice and HRD research. In recent years, actions have been taken to understand and close the gap, and more are planned. Those efforts would benefit from a greater understanding of how the gap is experienced and addressed in other professions. This paper summarizes a literature review of material from other…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Gesser, Bengt – 1985
The relationship between higher education and the division of labor was studied. The objective was to evaluate whether the establishment of affiliated universities has had the intended effects in terms of efficiency and equality. A main focus of "established educational research" has been the relationship between education and…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Opportunities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Haimson, Joshua; VanNoy, Michelle – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2004
Many high school and two-year college vocational programs are exploring new ways to help students develop and document skills valued in the labor market. Over the past decade, some efforts to improve vocational programs have focused on reorganizing curricula around skill standards and assessments formulated by employers. One recent example of this…
Descriptors: Credentials, Certification, Information Technology, Labor Force Development
California Postsecondary Education Commission, 2005
The role and responsibility of postsecondary education in preparing California's workforce demand both a research-based examination and a comprehensive discussion that can bring education and workforce interests together at the state level. This policy brief and others to follow examine where and how the state's postsecondary systems fit into a…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Labor Force Development, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fauri, Judy – Action in Teacher Education, 1982
Information is provided about the scope of training activities in business and industry, the role of the training specialist, and skills which will facilitate the transition from school-based teaching to corporate training programs. The growth of training programs in the corporate setting provides an optimistic future for the training specialist.…
Descriptors: Career Change, Demand Occupations, Educational Demand, Educational Trends
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). – 1990
This annex to the main report, the third volume in a three volume set, is based on a study performed by the DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) unit in parallel with the projects underway in the research and development Exploratory Action. It provides an assessment of the world situation in flexible and distance…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Global Approach
Bloom, Dan; Sherwood, Kay – 1994
The Parents' Fair Share Demonstration (PFS) was created to boost the incomes of poor noncustodial parents (most of them fathers) so as to increase child support payments and decrease the number of welfare recipients. This report gives the results of a nine-site pilot program, which operated from early 1992 through 1993. The program addressed two…
Descriptors: Child Support, Father Attitudes, Job Placement, Job Training
Leviatan, Uri – Interchange on Educational Policy, 1982
Increase in the number of individuals pursuing postsecondary schooling involves economic and social costs to the kibbutz. "Educational revolution" in the kibbutz refers to growing aspirations of the kibbutzim toward higher education. Measures taken by the kibbutz movement and individual kibbutzim to counteract the problems created by the…
Descriptors: Collective Settlements, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Educational Change
Mitchell, Hunter D., Ed. – 1990
This report describes in detail the DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) 1990 program, which was designed to address issues related to the use of new emerging technologies in the areas of information technology, telecommunications, and broadcasting, for learning. Six chapters cover the following topics: (1)…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Communications Satellites, Computer Networks, Distance Education
Grubb, W. Norton; And Others – 1996
Focusing on innovations in workforce preparation and emerging practices in community colleges, this report examines tech prep programs and efforts to integrate academic and vocational education. Following an executive summary and introduction, section 1 outlines federal initiatives and other sources of support for innovation in workforce…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Instructional Innovation
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1996
This document consists of three papers presented at a symposium on expertise in organizations moderated by Ross Azevedo at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). "How Individual Expertise May Be Socially Constructed: A Literature Review" (Abney V. Gleespen) looks at the research to determine the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Goal Orientation, Helping Relationship, Human Resources
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