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Adapting to the COVID-19 World: A Case Study of Collective Learning in a Social Entrepreneurial Organisation
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Eslahchi, Morteza – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how a social entrepreneurial organisation in Sweden collectively learned to adapt itself to the COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: Using an abductive approach, this study conducted single case fieldwork on a social entrepreneurial organisation called SFE. The following research questions were asked:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship
Downsizing and the Willingness to Mentor
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Bear, Stephen E.; Hwang, Alvin – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how employee perceptions of organizational context relate to willingness to mentor. This research will help organizations to understand the relationship between organizational context and willingness to mentor to encourage mentoring. Design/methodology/approach: This study used a survey approach. Employees who…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Job Layoff, Employee Attitudes, Mentors
Using Workplace Changes as Learning Opportunities: Antecedents to Reflection in Professional Work
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Hetzner, Stefanie; Heid, Helmut; Gruber, Hans – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to an understanding of how individual characteristics and perceived contextual conditions shape reflection in professional work, particularly in workplaces that provide a variety of work experiences related to changes. The authors examine the effects of personal initiative, self-efficacy and perceived…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Professional Occupations, Reflection, Self Efficacy
Social Work: A Profession in Flux
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Brigid Daniel – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the current context of social work as a profession and some of the major transition factors that are affecting social workers and social work organisations. Design/methodology/approach: The paper first explores what social work is, and how it has developed as a profession. It reflects on social…
Descriptors: Social Work, Professional Occupations, Context Effect, Professional Education
Corporate Culture Change: Adaptive Culture Structuration and Negotiated Practice
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Alma Whiteley; Christine Price; Rod Palmer – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present adaptive culture structuration, a new approach for theorizing and analyzing culture change and for creating an "adaptive cultural structurated learning environment". Design/methodology/approach: Incorporating a case study in the financial sector the paper explores 12 employees' narrated…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Organizational Change, Employees, Employee Attitudes
Changing the Work Behaviour of Chinese Employees Using Organisational Learning
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Elsey, Barry; Leung, Johnny Sai-Kwong – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2004
The management of workplace change takes place in many industry contexts and micro-settings using a variety of approaches, all of which are widely reported in the academic and professional literature. There is less known about workplace change management in the context of an international company employing large numbers of Mainland Chinese…
Descriptors: Action Research, Improvement Programs, Business Administration Education, Behavior Change