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Helen Jones; Shelley Gait; Philip John Tyson – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2024
Purpose: The mental health and well-being of employees is negatively impacted by stress, anxiety and depression. There is a need to address these issues at an organisational level to enhance workforce welfare and to decrease the number of days lost due to mental health/well-being concerns. This study aimed to evaluate a mental health and…
Descriptors: Employees, Well Being, Mental Health, Resilience (Psychology)
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Lucena Barbosa, Flávia; Borges-Andrade, Jairo Eduardo – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to find a measurement model with better evidence of validity, with data extracted from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). To test a parsimonious model in which dispositional and workplace context characteristics are predictors of informal learning behaviors (ILBs).…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Readiness, Work Environment, Professional Autonomy
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Hendrikx, Karolien; Schreurs, Bieke; Jansen In de Wal, Joost – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the role of employees' underlying implicit person theories in the relationship with innovative work climate and proactive behaviour at work. First, the authors study how an employee's implicit person theory (IPT), or the domain-general implicit belief about the development potential of people's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes, Work Environment, Personality Traits
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Silvennoinen, Heikki; Nori, Hanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of learning and training opportunities in the Finnish workforce. It will concentrate on the sectors of the workforce that lack these opportunities. Design/Methodology/Approach: The Working Conditions Barometer (WCB) data from 2008, 2009 and 2010 are used (N = 3,326) in this…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Employees, Employers, Foreign Countries
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Janet McCray; Hazel Turner; Barbara Hall; Marie Price; Gill Constable – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2014
Purpose: This paper presents the findings of a small scale research project exploring mentorship programme participants experiences and learning about their managerial role in an adult social care service seeking to build management practice, resilience and well-being in the context of transformation. Design/methodology/approach: A case study of…
Descriptors: Social Work, Adults, Administrators, Mentors
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Campbell, Matthew; Verenikina, Irina; Herrington, Anthony – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of a newcomer to the practice of policing to explore conceptualisations of learning through practice. It aims to position learning as the intersections of trajectories of being and becoming within a community of practice. The paper seeks to argue that learners need to be understood with…
Descriptors: Socialization, Informal Education, Police, Learning Processes