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How Do Job Crafting Profiles Manifest Employees' Work Engagement, Workaholism, and Epistemic Approach?
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Terhi S. Nissinen; Katja Upadyaya; Heidi Lammassaari; Kirsti Lonka – Vocations and Learning, 2024
The present study identifies job crafting profiles of public sector employees and how they differ in terms of employees' work engagement, workaholism, and approach to learning. Participants represent various occupations from educational field (e.g., teachers), technical field (e.g., ICT-experts), and administrative field (e.g., customer servants).…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Employees, Learning Processes, Technical Occupations
Effects of Goal Orientation and Unlearning on Individual Exploration Activities
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Tanaka, Satoshi – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2023
Purpose: Although individual exploration activities have been shown to promote organizational change and innovation, few studies have clarified the factors that quantitatively promote such aspects. This study aims to examine how individual exploration activities are facilitated by goal orientation and individual unlearning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Workplace Learning, Goal Orientation
Managers' Learning Process during a Health-Promoting Leadership Intervention
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Tjulin, Åsa; Landstad, Bodil; Vinberg, Stig; Eriksson, Andrea; Hagqvist, Emma – Health Education, 2019
Purpose: The increasingly demanding psychosocial working conditions in Swedish public sector workplaces call for implementation of workplace health promotion (WHP) interventions. There is a need to increase first-line public sector managers' capacities for health-promoting leadership. The purpose of this paper is to investigate first-line…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Health Promotion, Intervention, Work Environment
Learning Culture, Line Manager and HR Professional Practice
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Harrison, Patricia – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2011
Purpose: This paper aims to focus on the role of line management and learning culture in the development of professional practice for the human resource (HR) practitioner. Design/methodology/approach: Three-year longitudinal, matched-pair study involving five participants and their line managers. Findings: Two of the five participants experienced…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Processes, Human Resources, Career Development
Employee Perceptions of Their Workplaces as Learning Environments
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Coetzer, Alan – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to contribute to an understanding of how diverse groups of employees perceive their workplaces as learning environments, and to cast light on the learning processes of these diverse groups of employees. Design/methodology/approach: This study was designed to examine employee perceptions of: the extent to…
Descriptors: Employees, Informal Education, Tenure, Employee Attitudes
Strategy and the Learning Organization: A Maturity Model for the Formation of Strategy
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Kenny, John – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To develop a theoretical model for strategic change that links learning in an organization to the strategic process. Design/methodology/approach: The model was developed from a review of literature covering a range of areas including: management, strategic planning, psychology of learning and organizational learning. The process of…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Maturity (Individuals), Models, Learning Processes